The Ledgerstone Survey

of England and Wales

Features – Historical Spellings

Sandwich, Kent – A Simple Poem – Powell (Ledgerstone of the Month – January 2017)

In St. Mary’s church in Sandwich, Kent, is a simple ledger that is showing the signs of three centuries of dust and deterioration under people’s feet.  Demonstrating the importance of the historical record to verify difficult-to-read dates incised into the stones,