Sutton Valence
Sutton Valence is a village about five miles SE of Maidstone, Kent, England on the A274 road going south to Headcorn and Tenterden. It is on the Greensand Ridge overlooking the Vale of Kent and Weald.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,860 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Sutton Valence, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Queens Head Public House and Sutton Valence Castle.
Sutton Valence Castle
Ruins
Photo: Ukiws, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sutton Valence Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the village of Sutton Valence in Kent, England. Overlooking a strategic route to the coast, the original castle probably comprised an inner and an outer bailey and a protective barbican, with a three-storey high keep on its southern side.
Sutton Valence School
School
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Sutton Valence School is a private school near Maidstone in southeast England. It has 560 pupils. It is a co-educational day and boarding school. There are three senior boarding houses: Westminster, St Margaret's and Sutton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Langley Heath and Kingswood.
Kingswood
Village
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingswood is a village in the Maidstone District of Kent, England and forms part of the civil parish of Broomfield and Kingswood. The main village was constructed in the early 1960s, after earlier sporadic development in both Pitt and Gravelly Bottom Roads on land given to soldiers returning from WW1. Kingswood is situated 2 miles northeast of Sutton Valence.
Broomfield
Hamlet
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broomfield is a village in the Maidstone District of Kent, England, and forms part of the civil parish of Broomfield and Kingswood. It lies 6 miles to the east of Maidstone. Broomfield is situated 2½ miles northeast of Sutton Valence.
Sutton Valence
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Sutton Valence, Maidstone, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.21263° or 51° 12′ 46″ northLongitude
0.59256° or 0° 35′ 33″ eastPopulation
1,860Elevation
331 feet (101 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SUVOpen location code
9F326H7V+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 59766248OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Sutton Valence” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sutton Valence”
- Chinese: “薩頓華朗斯城堡”
- Dutch: “Sutton Valence”
- French: “Sutton Valence”
- German: “Sutton Valence”
- Irish: “Sutton Valence”
- Italian: “Sutton Valence”
- Italian: “Sutton”
- Ladin: “Sutton Valence”
- Polish: “Sutton Valence”
- Spanish: “Sutton Valence”
- Swedish: “Sutton Valence”
- Turkish: “Sutton Valence”
- Welsh: “Sutton Valence”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sutton Valence”. Photo: John Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.