Paddlesworth
Paddlesworth is a hamlet and parish located about 3 miles NNW of Folkestone in Kent, England, near Hawkinge. Paddlesworth was a sighting-point for the Anglo-French Survey linking the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the Paris Observatory, undertaken by General William Roy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 46 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe District, Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Paddlesworth, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Oswald’s Church, Paddlesworth and Kent Battle of Britain Museum.
Kent Battle of Britain Museum
Museum
Photo: Ron Hann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Kent Battle of Britain Museum is an aviation museum located in Hawkinge, Kent, focused on the Allied and Axis men of the Battle of Britain. The Spirit of the Few Monument is in the grounds of the museum.
Folkestone Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: GkgAlf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Folkestone Castle stood on a spur of the North Downs to the north of the town of Folkestone, Kent. The Norman castle existed in the late 11th and 12th centuries and was built on a natural mound which. Folkestone Castle is situated 1½ miles southeast of Paddlesworth.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arpinge and Hawkinge.
Arpinge
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Arpinge is a hamlet between Paddlesworth and Newington to the west of Folkestone in Kent, England. It consists of three working farms, three now converted to residential use and a further four houses.
Hawkinge
Village
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Hawkinge is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. The original village of Hawkinge is actually just less than a mile due east of the present village centre; the village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill.
Peene
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Kent located 1 mile north-west of Folkestone. It gives its name to Newington Parish Council, which has five councillors, and includes the hamlets of Arpinge and Beachborough.
Paddlesworth
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Paddlesworth, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.11616° or 51° 6′ 58″ northLongitude
1.13557° or 1° 8′ 8″ eastPopulation
46Elevation
604 feet (184 metres)Open location code
9F33448P+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 27212473OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2640691Wikidata ID
Q2005996
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Paddlesworth” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Paddlesworth”
- Dutch: “Paddlesworth”
- French: “Paddlesworth”
- Irish: “Paddlesworth”
- Italian: “Paddlesworth”
- Ladin: “Paddlesworth”
- Persian: “پدلزورث”
- Polish: “Paddlesworth”
- Spanish: “Paddlesworth”
- Swedish: “Paddlesworth”
- Turkish: “Paddlesworth”
- Welsh: “Paddlesworth”
- “Paddlesworth”
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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 “Paddlesworth”. Photo: Rose and Trev Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.