Faversham Hop Fest was supposed to be held this weekend, but was sadly cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here, we look back at some old pictures of hop farming in Kent - which is what the ...

Hop Along Thanet is one of a number of community hop growing groups across Kent. It has more than 50 members who have planted ...

There were fears that Kent's farming tradition was coming to an end after a 150-year-old hop farm in Rolvenden closed last year. Hops were introduced to the county in the 16th century and by 1724 ...

This is Kent and a trickle of pilgrims has already started to make its way down the deep green lanes. They’re not an organised company doing a modern reconstruction of The Canterbury Tales. You ...

Affectionately known as the Garden of England for its hop fields, fruit orchards and vineyards, Kent is ringed on three sides ...

Kent’s baptismal records show that people have been travelling to the area’s hop gardens to be employed as hop pickers, or hoppers as they are known, since the mid 1800s.

They have nearly all disappeared now, the Kentish hop gardens, ... Shepherd Neame Goldings Summer Hop Ale, 4.7% vol, Kent (selected Majestic; £8.64 per eight 500ml bottles).

A 'opping down in Kent. The whole street would go with Fred. Mum, grandma, his sister as well as many neighbours. The hop farm would arrange the transport by lorry, by train or if they were really ...

But the closest many city families in London, especially around the docklands, came to a “normal” holiday was a few weeks’ paid work in the Kentish hop gardens. All Sections News you can ...

But hops were initially imported, and the first hop garden wasn't recorded in Kent until 1523, at Westbere. Soon, hop farming began to boom in the area. A historic pic of hop picking in Kent.

Hop Along Thanet is one of a number of community hop growing groups across Kent. It has more than 50 members who have planted 150 hop bines in their gardens and allotments across Thanet.

In her modern day study ’The Encircling Hop’, Margaret Lawrence estimates that at the hop gardens’ peak in the mid to late 19th Century, over 80,000 people invaded Kent every year for its ...