Hastingleigh
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| Statistics | |
| Population: | 247 [1] |
| Ordnance Survey | |
| OS grid reference: | TR097449 |
| Administration | |
| Parish: | Hastingleigh |
| Borough: | Ashford |
| Shire county: | Kent |
| Region: | South East England |
| Constituent country: | England |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom |
| Other | |
| Ceremonial county: | Kent |
| Historic county: | Kent |
| Services | |
| Police force: | Kent Police |
| Ambulance service: | South East Coast |
| Post office and telephone | |
| Post town: | TONBRIDGE |
| Postal district: | TN25 |
| Dialling code: | 01233 |
| Politics | |
| UK Parliament: | Ashford |
| European Parliament: | South East England |
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The small civil parish of Hastingleigh lies on top of the North Downs in Kent three miles east of Wye and ten miles south of Canterbury, near the locally renowned beauty spot of the Devil's Kneading Trough, on the North Downs Way with views towards Ashford, Romney Marsh and the Weald.
Hastingleigh has a current population of about 200 serviced by a village shop and post office (currently closed), garage and a public house.
The village was in existence prior to the Domesday Book and originally lay in the valley by the Church of England church (St. Mary the Virgin) but following the plague, the main settlement was relocated to its current position. The church is made of stone, in the Early English style, and has a tower containing one bell: there is a brass to John Hawke, 1604, and Anna his wife, 1596: the nave and aisle were restored in 1880 and the chancel in 1886: the church affords 200 sittings.
[edit] External link
- Hastingleigh Parish Council – hosted by saxonshore-kent.gov.uk
[edit] References
- ^ Ashford Borough Council Census 2001
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with the surrounding suburbs, villages, towns and parishes: |
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Aldington • Appledore • Bethersden • Biddenden • Bilsington • Bilting • Bonnington • Boughton Aluph • Boughton Aluph and Eastwell • Boughton Lees • Brabourne • Brabourne Lees • Brook • Challock • Charing • Cheeseman's Green • Chilham • Chilmington Green • Crundale • Eastwell • Ebony • Egerton • Evesgate • Godinton • Godmersham • Great Chart • Great Chart with Singleton • Hamstreet • Hastingleigh • High Halden • Hinxhill • Hothfield • Kenardington • Kennington • Kingsnorth • Little Chart • Mersham • Molash • Newenden • Newtown • Orlestone • Park Farm • Pluckley • Rolvenden • Rolvenden Layne • Ruckinge • Sellindge • Sevington • Shadoxhurst • Singleton • Smarden • Smeeth • Stanhope • Stonebridge Green • Stone-cum-Ebony • Stone in Oxney • Tenterden • Warehorne • Westwell • Willesborough • Wittersham • Woodchurch • Wye • Wye with Hinxhill |
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| The borough of Ashford List of places in Kent |
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