Stanford
Stanford is a village and civil parish in Kent, England. It is part of the Folkestone and Hythe district. The village developed along the ancient Roman Stone Street and was divided by the construction of the M20 motorway into Stanford North and Stanford South.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 406 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Kent, England
- Also known as: “Stanford, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Westenhanger railway station and Sandling Railway Station.
Westenhanger railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Westenhanger railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the villages of Westenhanger and Stanford, and was near the now-closed Folkestone Racecourse, in Kent.
Sandling Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandling railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the village of Sandling and the market town of Hythe, Kent. It is 65 miles 36 chains down the line from London Charing Cross.
Lympne Castle
Garden
Photo: Robin Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lympne Castle is a medieval castle in England that is located in the village of Lympne in Kent, above Romney Marsh. It is 18,862 square feet in size and is a Grade I listed property, described as a fortified manor house. Lympne Castle is situated 2 miles south of Stanford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westenhanger and Postling.
Westenhanger
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanford is a village and civil parish in Kent, England. It is part of the Folkestone and Hythe district. The village developed along the ancient Roman Stone Street and was divided by the construction of the M20 motorway into Stanford North and Stanford South.
Postling
Village
Photo: Julian P Guffogg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Postling is a village and civil parish situated near the Roman road of Stone Street, about 17 miles south of Canterbury, Kent, in South East England. Postlinges is the spelling used in the Domesday Book, where it was part of the lands of Hugo de Montfort; Postlinge is also seen in old records.
Newingreen
Village
Newingreen is a village near Folkestone in Kent, England. It is situated on the junction of the A20 and the historic Stone Street between Lympne and Canterbury. The village is near Junction 11 of the M20. It is in the civil parish of Stanford.
Stanford
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Stanford, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.10263° or 51° 6′ 10″ northLongitude
1.03958° or 1° 2′ 23″ eastPopulation
406Elevation
256 feet (78 metres)Open location code
9F33423Q+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 26883697OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2637092Wikidata ID
Q3132713
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Stanford” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “স্ট্যানফোর্ড”
- Bulgarian: “Станфорд”
- Cebuano: “Stanford (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Kent)”
- Cebuano: “Stanford”
- Chinese: “史丹福”
- Chinese: “斯坦福”
- Dutch: “Stanford”
- French: “Stanford”
- German: “Stanford”
- Gujarati: “સ્ટેનફોર્ડ”
- Irish: “Stanford”
- Italian: “Stanford (Kent)”
- Italian: “Stanford”
- Japanese: “スタンフォード”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಟ್ಯಾನ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “스탠퍼드”
- Ladin: “Stanford (Kent)”
- Ladin: “Stanford”
- Lithuanian: “Stanfordas”
- Persian: “استنفورد، کنت”
- Polish: “Stanford”
- Portuguese: “Stanford”
- Russian: “Станфорд”
- Spanish: “Stanford”
- Swedish: “Stanford, Kent”
- Swedish: “Stanford”
- Tamil: “ஸ்டான்போர்ட்”
- Telugu: “స్టాన్ ఫోర్డ్”
- Urdu: “اسٹینڈ فور”
- Welsh: “Stanford, Caint”
- Welsh: “Stanford”
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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 “Stanford”. Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.