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Wye Village is served by buses and a railway, has a good collection of shops and four churches (Anglican, Methodist, Pentecostal and Roman Catholic). Midday and evening meals can be obtained conveniently at several places in the village. Wye, being environmentally aware, has a local Farmer's Market on alternate Saturday mornings and the village is conspicuous in that 70% of its household waste compared with far less for Kent generally. Wye Downs are readily accessible from Wye - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a site of Special Scientific Interest. The Village is home to Imperial College - part of the university of London. Places reached conveniently from Wye include Ashford
(International Station), Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone, the beautiful Leeds
castle, the historic town of Rye and Sissinghurst Castle and Gardens. These
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Traces of human habitation date from Mesolithic times. Significant Roman remains have been found and the parish Church walls appear to contain re-cycled hypocaust tiles. Wye eventually became a royal manor and had a long association with Battle Abbey. Local historians have mined the rich seam of it's history and literature is readily available. See for example: Bannister NR and Watt TA (1997) Wye, 10,000 years of Kentish Community and its Landscape pp. 48 Burnham, P. and de Saxe, M. (2003) A New History of Wye: The Heritage of a Kent Village. Wye Historical Society. Richards SA (1994) Wye College and its world: a centenary history pp. 336 Watt TA and Chapman GP (Eds.)(1994) The Natural History of a Country Estate: Wye College, Kent pp. 195
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