Monks Horton is a small civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. It is located 3 miles (5 km) north of Hythe. Within the civil parish are the hamlets of Horton and Broad Street. The parish is governed by a parish meeting, rather than a parish council, because of its small size. The name comes from there having been a medieval priory built here.[1]
The Church of St Peter, Monks HortonMount Morris, Monks Horton, the Seat of Morris Drake Morris, Esq. Engraved by Johannes Kip after Thomas Badeslade, 1719.
Author Russell Hoban repurposes Monks Horton as "Monkeys Whoar Town" in his 1980, post apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker.[3]
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^'Houses of Cluniac monks: The priory of Monkshorton', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Kent, Vol. 2 (VCH, London 1926), pp. 151-153 (British History Online accessed 23 October 2017).
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