![]() ![]() ![]() Folklore Īccording to local legend, the last survivor of the Black Death at Dode was a seven-year-old girl known as the Dodechild. Stones from the church were used to build a Medieval church nearby. ![]() It was originally twinned with another Early Norman church in Paddlesworth (now in Snodland). ![]() The village of Dode was virtually wiped out by the Black Death during the 14th century, and its church last used as a place of worship in 1367, then deconsecrated on the orders of Thomas Trilleck, the Bishop of Rochester. The church stands at the end of a 10-mile long easterly running ley line connecting three pre- reformation churches, two Roman sites, a Bronze Age burial ground, and two of the Medway megaliths - the Coffin Stone and Kit's Coty House. The nearby hill is known as "Holly Hill" which is a corruption of "Holy Hill", and the lane which leads to the village is "Wrangling Lane", showing that the mound could be the site of a meeting place. The church at Dode was built during the reign of William II of England at some point between 10. Archaeological evidence shows habitation in the Dode area during the time of the Roman Empire. ![]()
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