page_title: Lower Halstow
section_title: Other buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Lower Halstow / Other buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: The Three Tuns, Lower Halstow
context_page_description: Lower Halstow is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England. The village is northwest of Sittingbourne on the banks of the Medway Estuary. It lies north of Newington on the A2 Roman road.
  The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,180.
  The village has a long history, with evidence of constant occupation since the Iron Age. Being so close to the water, Lower Halstow has been a village that has made its living from the water. Whether it be ancient pottery making, ancient fishing, barge building, or in the 19th- and 20th-century brick-making, the water has been the lifeblood of the village.
  According to Edward Hasted in 1798, two large hospital ships, commonly called lazarettos, were moored in Halstow Creek. The lazarettos monitored ships coming to England which were forced to stay in the creek under quarantine, to protect the country from infectious diseases.
  In 1563 Queen Elizabeth ordered a survey, and Halstow Key, was made up of 24 people in houses and 14 living on boats. There were two hamlets, one beside the wharf and the other around Halstow Green on Lower Street. The rest of the northern lands were salt marsh.
context_section_description: The village has an 18th-century pub, the Three Tuns, which is a Grade II listed building.
  Green Farm House is 17th- and 18th-century and is also Grade II listed.
caption: The Three Tuns Inn on Lower Street
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