Swanley
Swanley is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England, 16 miles southeast of central London, adjacent to the Greater London boundary and within the M25 motorway periphery. The population at the 2021 census was 17,826.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 21,800 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England
- Also known as: “Swanley, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Orchards Academy and Swanley railway station.
Orchards Academy
School
Orchards Academy is a mixed comprehensive secondary school located in Swanley in South East England. The school was converted to academy status on 1 November 2010 and was renamed Orchards Academy.
Swanley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Swanley railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Swanley, Kent. It is 17 miles 31 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between St Mary Cray and Farningham Road on the main line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hockenden and Swanley Village.
Hockenden
Village
Hockenden is a rural hamlet in Greater London, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is located within Swanley, adjacent to the Greater London border with Kent in the Metropolitan green belt. It is part of the Orpington Borough Constituency.
Swanley Village
Village
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Swanley Village is a village in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 1 mile north east of Swanley & 4.7 miles south west of Dartford.
Ruxley
Village
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ruxley is a rural settlement of South East London, England that straddles the boundary of the London Boroughs of Bromley and Bexley. It is located 13 miles southeast of Charing Cross, the traditional centre of London, in the Metropolitan Green Belt between Sidcup and Swanley and is also adjacent to the Greater London border with the county of Kent. Ruxley is situated 2 miles northwest of Swanley.
Swanley
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Swanley, Sevenoaks, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.39631° or 51° 23′ 47″ northLongitude
0.17143° or 0° 10′ 17″ eastPopulation
21,800Elevation
266 feet (81 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SAYOpen location code
9F3295WC+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 29369448OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Swanley” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Swanley”
- Basque: “Swanley”
- Bavarian: “Swanley”
- Bengali: “সোয়ানলে”
- Cebuano: “Swanley”
- Chinese: “史旺雷”
- Chinese: “斯万雷”
- Chinese: “斯旺利”
- Chinese: “斯萬雷”
- Czech: “Swanley”
- Dutch: “Swanley”
- French: “Swanley”
- German: “Swanley”
- Gujarati: “સ્વાનલી”
- Hindi: “स्वानले”
- Indonesian: “Swanley”
- Irish: “Swanley”
- Italian: “Swanley”
- Japanese: “スワンリー”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ವಾನ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “스완리”
- Ladin: “Swanley”
- Lithuanian: “Svonlis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swanley”
- Persian: “سوانلی”
- Polish: “Swanley”
- Portuguese: “Swanley”
- Romanian: “Swanley”
- Russian: “Суонли”
- Slovak: “Swanley”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوانلی”
- Spanish: “Swanley”
- Swedish: “Swanley”
- Tamil: “ஸ்வன்லி”
- Telugu: “స్వాన్ లీ”
- Turkish: “Swanley”
- Ukrainian: “Суонлі”
- Urdu: “سوانلے”
- Volapük: “Swanley”
- Welsh: “Swanley”
- “Swanley”
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