Staple, Kent
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Staple is a small village is east Kent. It lies south west of the Nearby village of Ash and the town of Sandwich and west of Canterbury.
[edit] Etymology
Staple may derive from the Old English stapol meaning "place of execution". Another possible etymology is that Staple derives from the French etape meaning "halting place" or "watering place".
[edit] History
The village church, St.James the Great, dates to the Saxon period but there have been finds in the land surrounding the village that date back to the Bronze age at least. Staple is situated near to the end of one of the arms of the Wansum Channel, as thus in prehistoric times would have provided a channel to the sea. The village three miles west of the bronze age site at Ringlemere and east of the Roman and Mesolithic sites at Wingham.
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