Leigh
Leigh, historically spelled Lyghe, is a village and a civil parish located in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. It is located six miles south of Sevenoaks town and three miles west of Tonbridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,040 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Leigh, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Leigh and Leigh Railway Station.
St Mary’s Church, Leigh
Church
Photo: Jules & Jenny, CC BY 2.0.
St Mary's Church is a parish church in Leigh, Kent. The current church was originally completed in the 13th century, although a church is believed to have stood on the same site for over a thousand years. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Leigh Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Leigh railway station is on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line and serves Leigh in Kent, England. It is 39 miles 56 chains measured from London Charing Cross via Redhill. Train services are operated by Southern.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chiddingstone Causeway and Bidborough.
Chiddingstone Causeway
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chiddingstone Causeway is a village 4 miles west of Tonbridge in Kent, England. It is in the civil parish of Chiddingstone and the local government district of Sevenoaks. Chiddingstone Causeway is situated 2 miles west of Leigh.
Bidborough
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bidborough is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England, north of Royal Tunbridge Wells and south of Tonbridge. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 958, increasing to 1,163 at the 2011 Census. Bidborough is situated 2½ miles southeast of Leigh.
Tonbridge
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tonbridge is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, 4 miles north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, 12 miles south west of Maidstone and 29 miles south east of London.
Leigh
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Leigh, Sevenoaks, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.1966° or 51° 11′ 48″ northLongitude
0.21672° or 0° 13′ 0″ eastPopulation
2,040Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LEGOpen location code
9F3256W8+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 112222861OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Leigh” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Лай”
- Cebuano: “Leigh (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Kent)”
- Cebuano: “Leigh”
- Dutch: “Leigh”
- French: “Leigh”
- Irish: “Leigh”
- Italian: “Leigh (Kent)”
- Italian: “Leigh”
- Japanese: “リー (ケント)”
- Japanese: “レイ”
- Ladin: “Leigh (Kent)”
- Ladin: “Leigh”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leigh”
- Norwegian: “Leigh”
- Persian: “لی، کنت”
- Polish: “Leigh”
- Spanish: “Leigh”
- Swedish: “Leigh, Kent”
- Swedish: “Leigh”
- Turkish: “Leigh, Kent”
- Welsh: “Leigh, Caint”
- Welsh: “Leigh”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Leigh Village Green and Leigh Primary School.
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