Welcome to St Peter's

Welcome to St Peter's. . This village came into existence as a pagan Jutish settlement, and was well established by the 7th century AD. From these beginnings the present Town of Broadstairs and St Peter's has evolved., St Peter's Church , The village takes its name from the flint built Parish Church of St Peter the Apostle in Thanet which dates from 1070 AD. The present tower was added in the 15th century. During the Napoleonic Wars the tower was used as a signalling station by the Royal Navy, so the church claims the right to fly the White Ensign on suitable occasions. The vestry was the seat of local government., The Old Farmhouse , The Old Farmhouse was built by Richard and Sarah Mockett in 1682 - see SMR 1682 over the doorway. The award-winning Lych Gate was added in 2002. The village green in front was given to the community by the Mockett family in 1970., Hopeville , Hopeville was built by the Mocketts in 1704. The painter Walter Richard Sickert lived here for 4 years from 1934. Sickert was one of the many people suspected of being Jack the Ripper - the infamous 1888 murderer., The Almshouse , This property stared life as a Workhouse in 1805. In 1835/6 it was purchased by Mrs Ana Nuckell and converted to the Almshouse which it still is., Flint Cottage and Assembly Room , Flint Cottage was at the entrance to the St Peter's Ranelagh Pleasure Gardens, opened here by Mr Charles Newbolt (landlord of the Red Lion) in 1818. The gardens covered two and a half acres, and catered for up to 2000 people who were lavishly entertained. They closed in 1852. The Assembly Rooms and the Stewards Cottage are still standing but the area is now private., Tippledore Lane , In Tippledore Lane (formerly Tipple Door Lane) you are on the route used by monks a thousand years ago to walk from Canterbury, via Minster, to the Churches of St Laurence, St Peter and St John.