NETTLESTEAD PARISH COUNCIL
Built mainly on one side of the B2015, the village is the furthest west in the borough of Maidstone. More than 800 people live here, and the parish includes Nettlestead Green and part of Seven Mile Lane.The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has links with William the Conqueror's half brother, Odo. It is said that Nettlestead church owes its enormous stained glass windows to a 15th century Agincourt veteran who came back from France very impressed with what had already been done with stained glass decoration for churches there. The man was Reginald de Pympe, and his son, John, added more stained glass later in the same century. The de Pympes made quite an impression upon Nettlestead in their day. Reginald moved into Nettlestead Place, which he rebuilt at about the same time as he had the church rebuilt and embellished with the new glass.