![]() Human habitation in Sturry is thought to have started around 430,000 years ago, as dated flint implements - namely knives and arrow-tips - show. The parish boundaries are the same now as they were in 1086 as recorded in the Domesday Book. The station was until the 1860s the stagecoach point for Herne and Herne Bay. Sturry railway station was opened in 1848 and the line was electrified in 1962, by the South Eastern Railway it is on the line between Canterbury West and Ramsgate. ![]() Sturry lies at the old Roman junction of the road from the city to Thanet and Reculver, at the point where a fort was built to protect the crossing of the river. ![]()
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