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Thomas Dunk blue plaque

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This blue commemorative plaque records: Dunk's Almshouses and Schoolroom In his will of 1718 Sir Thomas Dunk gave and endowed these six dwellings for poor people a school for twenty boys and a house for the master Recorded plaque organisation: Hawkhurst Heritage.

From the Open Plaques record 1472

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