Wormshill is a small village and civil parish within the Borough of Maidstone, Kent, England. It lies on an exposed high point of the North Downs, 11 miles (18 km) north of Maidstone and within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Archaeological and toponymic evidence of Wormshill's existence predates its appearance in the Domesday survey of 1086. Its name derived from the Anglo-Saxon god Wōden and means "Woden's Hill". The village contains a number of heritage-listed buildings, which include a Norman church (St Giles, Wormshill, pictured), a public house and one of the oldest surviving post office buildings in the United Kingdom. The Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway runs between two small stations in nearby woodland. The fields and woodland surrounding Wormshill have changed little in the past 500 years, and the village itself remains rural with a low population density compared to the national average. Because of restrictions on development, building in the village has been scant since the 1960s and 1970s. The population of 200 is a mixture of agricultural workers employed by local farms and professionals who commute to nearby towns.

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1282:

Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Vespers

1867:

U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska for US$7.2 million from Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase

1899:

A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the International Committee on Atomic Weights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Isotopic_Abundances_and_Atomic_Weights

1964:

Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!

2009:

Twelve gunmen attacked the Manawan Police Training School in Lahore, Pakistan, and held it for several hours before security forces could retake it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Lahore_police_academy_attacks

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