There is some interesting information on Stansted at the British History Online website (click here to be taken to the full entry). It is taken from The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5,Author Edward Hasted, published 1798.
But my favourite paragraph is the one below, just imagine it raining fish!
But my favourite paragraph is the one below, just imagine it raining fish!
About Easter, in the year 1666, a pasture field in this parish, which is a considerable distance from the sea, or any branch of it, and a place, where there are no fish ponds, but a scarcity of water, was scattered all over with small fish, in quantity about a bushel, supposed to have been rained down from a cloud, there having been at that time a great tempest of thunder, hail, wind, &c. These fish were about the size of a man's little finger, some were like small whitings, others like sparts, and some smaller like smelts. Several of these fish were shewn publicly at Maidstone and Dartford.
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