by Rachel Hovenden

rhovenden@thekmgroup.co.uk

A woman was taken to hospital after damaging her spine when she fell from a horse.

An air ambulance was scrambled after the woman, thought to be in her 30s, fell from the animal during what is thought to have been a midday horse trial in the private Nurstead Court estate on Saturday, April 30.

Private ambulance medics called for the Marden-based air ambulance whose team gave her anti-sickness and pain killing drugs before flying her to King’s College Hospital, London.

The hospital has a specialist spinal injury unit.

The estate, in Nurstead Church Lane, Meopham, is home to a Grade I listed medieval hall and farm set in 400 acres of farmland.