Loose
Loose is a village and civil parish some 2 miles south of Maidstone, Kent, situated at the head of the Loose Valley, with which it forms the Loose Valley Conservation Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,670 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Maidstone, Kent, England
- Also known as: “Loose, Kent”
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of All Saints and The Chequers Inn.
Cornwallis Academy
School
Photo: Danny P Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cornwallis Academy is a mixed-sex secondary school and sixth form located in Linton in the English county of Kent.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barming Heath and Grove Green.
Barming Heath
Suburb
Barming Heath is an area of western Maidstone in Kent, England. Its parish church is dedicated to St Andrew. Barming Heath is situated 2½ miles northwest of Loose.
Grove Green
Hamlet
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grove Green is a suburban housing development, partially forming a part of Weavering village, near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The population of the development is included in the civil parish of Boxley. Grove Green is situated 3 miles northeast of Loose.
Chainhurst
Hamlet
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chainhurst is a wealden village in Kent, England, and is part of Marden civil parish and Maidstone District. It is about 2 miles north of Marden, below Bidborough Ridge, and south of the River Beult floodplain. Chainhurst is situated 3 miles southwest of Loose.
Loose
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Loose, Maidstone, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.24115° or 51° 14′ 28″ northLongitude
0.51682° or 0° 31′ 1″ eastPopulation
2,670Elevation
249 feet (76 metres)Open location code
9F326GR8+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 26630887OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2643604Wikidata ID
Q6675924
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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 “Loose”. Photo: Stacey Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.