Nonington (listenⓘ) (variously, Nonnington, Nunyngton, Nonnyngton and Nunnington), is a civil parish and village in east Kent, halfway between the historic city of Canterbury and the channel port town of Dover.

[7] Prior to the split, an area of 3,808 acres (1,541 ha) is shown for Nonington parish in Volume III of the Victoria County History of Kent, published in 1936.

The surrounding land is generally arable, with a mix of larger and smaller fields "divided by hedgerows and shaws through which the winding lanes meander".

[15] The church underwent restoration in 1887; the nave and north aisle were re-roofed and the wooden beams exposed, teak pews installed and a vestry built in the base of the tower.

[16] The church organ is by Norman and Beard and was installed in 1906 and dedicated by parishoners and friends to deceased squires, William Oxenden Hammond and Charles John Plumptre.

[17][18] An article in the Kentish Express in March 1913 described the windows of Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles as the "great feature of St Mary's"; the interior is described as "absolutely crowded with memorial tablets", owing to the burials of generations of the Hammonds of St Albans manor and the Plumptres of Fredville.

[19] St Albans Court is a Grade I listed[20] mansion built in the 1870s to the design of architect, George Devey.

[25] The estate was then put up for auction by the family and was purchased by the English Gymnastic Society (EGS), under the redoubtable pioneer, Miss Gladys Wright.

The estate was developed into the head office of the EGS and a new training college for female physical education (PE) teachers.

The college resumed the teaching at St Albans Court at the end of the war, and continued until the retirement of its founder, in 1952.

Falling birth-rates finally forced its closure in 1986, and the site remained derelict for several years as various proposals were debated.

Nowadays, St Albans Court is used as a boarding school named Beech Grove by the Bruderhof community.

[34] He was a partner in Hammond, Plumptre & Co. bank of Canterbury, an honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the East Kent Regiment of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Buffs and politically, a "staunch Conservative".

Thomas Walford in The Scientific Tourist through England, Wales, & Scotland mentioned three "magnificent" oak trees at Fredville named "Majesty", "Stately" and "Beauty".

a group, which, for magnificence and beauty, is not perhaps exceeded by any other of the same nature; awakening in the mind of the spectator, the most agreeable associations of the freedom and grandeur of woodland scenery, with the security and refinements of cultivated life".

[40] Nonington Village Hall opened in December 1923 with a Christmas fair and market following fifteen months of fundraising.

[47] The Old Malthouse on Sandwich Road, dated 1704, is of brick and rendered timber frame construction under a hipped, thatched roof.

[48] At the junction with Mill Lane stands the early 19th century, Lime Tree Cottage with weather boarded side elevations and a front facade of imitation ashlar masonry.

[49] In Mill Lane are a pair of gabled cottages by architect, George Devey for William Oxenden Hammond.

Tall Chimneys and Bramley Cottage were built in 1878–9 of stone and red brick with blue diaper pattern; roughcast upper and exposed timber to front gable.