Coordinates: 51°18′15″N 0°25′21″E / 51.304120°N 0.422560°E / 51.304120; 0.422560
Leybourne is a small village in Kent, England situated off Junction 4 of the M20 Motorway. Leybourne is adjacent to Larkfield and West Malling.
Historically, the area was extensively quarried, leaving a number of flooded gravel pits. These have recently been developed into Leybourne Lakes Country Park, and a housing development. Several of the houses on the development feature in the Channel 4 TV Series Cape Wrath. Nearby New Hythe was also home (until 2004) of Meridian's newsroom and studio for the South East.
Leybourne church is a small church with a big history. The church was built in Saxon times but the church building was changed greatly in 1874. The Leybourne history started when the ancestor of the Leybourne family came over with William the Conqueror from France. He was granted land by William I in Yorkshire and lived there with his family for a long time. His descendent, Sir Philip Libourne, decided to live in a village in Kent called Lillieburn. The names mixed to call the place Leybourne. He built Leybourne Castle and was the first baron of Leybourne, his new name was Sir Philip Baron de Leybourne. Two people who were quite important were barons of Leybourne. The first, the baron of Leybourne, Sir Roger de Leybourne great grandson of Philip, was good friends with Prince Edward (later to become Edward I). In 1270 he set off with Edward on a crusade to the Holy Land. On the way he was ill so was sent back, in France on the way to Leybourne he died. His heart was sent back to Leybourne and put in the left hand side box of the niche, the one on the right is empty.
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Mental paper cut
These scissors to cut, this paper, into my skin, cut to my blood, I can't feel myself---- within.
This feeling, unstoppable, the strain is incomparable, my chest blows a bubble,
I thought that bind time it'd go away
This mental paper cut
That I can't, control
The feeling
Soothes me
But same time
Kills me within-
I don't know what to feel anymore
This pain awakes a memory so sore
My skin tingles---
Now that time's gone by
My pain is worse
There's got to b something I haven't tried
When I close my eyes
I feel my part of life
It just won't die
A sword goes in
My memory goes out
All I am now is a cell of, meat and bones