Otterden

Coordinates: 51°14′42″N 0°47′24″E / 51.245°N 0.79°E / 51.245; 0.79Otterden is a civil parish and village on the Kent Downs in the borough of Maidstone in Kent, England.

History

Otterden is mentioned in the Domesday Book under Kent in the lands belonging to Adam FitzHubert. The book which was written in 1086 said:

From 1933 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1948, Otterden was the home of the Bunce Court School, founded by Anna Essinger when she closed her German boarding school after the Nazi Party seized power and moved her school to England.

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External links

Media related to Otterden at Wikimedia Commons