Godmersham
Godmersham is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village straddles the Great Stour river where it cuts through the North Downs and its land is approximately one third woodland, all in the far east and west on the escarpment of the North Downs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 362 residents
- Description: village in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Godmersham, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Godmersham Park and Chilham Castle.
Godmersham Park
Manor estate
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Godmersham Park is a Grade I listed house in Godmersham in the English county of Kent. The house is on the edge of the North Downs between Ashford and Canterbury.
Chilham Castle
Castle
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Chilham Castle is a Jacobean manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The keep is of Norman origin and dates to 1174, although it may have been built on an older Anglo-Saxon fortification. Chilham Castle is situated 2 miles north of Godmersham.
Wye railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wye railway station serves Wye in Kent, England, on the Ashford to Ramsgate line. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern. Wye railway station is situated 2 miles southwest of Godmersham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bilting and Crundale.
Bilting
Hamlet
Bilting is a hamlet within the civil parish of Godmersham in the Ashford District of Kent, England. It stretches along the A28 at the foot of the Godmersham Downs, five miles northeast of Ashford town.
Crundale
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crundale is a mostly rural village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent in southeast England. The village covers a section of one of the dual escarpments of the North Downs at this point, about halfway between Ashford and Canterbury.
Chilham
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chilham is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England. It sits on the north bank of the Great Stour around 5+1⁄2 miles to the southwest of Canterbury and seven miles northeast of Ashford. Chilham is situated 2 miles north of Godmersham.
Godmersham
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Godmersham, Ashford, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.21515° or 51° 12′ 55″ northLongitude
0.95059° or 0° 57′ 2″ eastPopulation
362Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)Open location code
9F326X82+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 26884044OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648368Wikidata ID
Q632173
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Godmersham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جودميرشام”
- Bulgarian: “Годмършъм”
- Cebuano: “Godmersham”
- Dutch: “Godmersham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جودميرشام”
- French: “Godmersham”
- Irish: “Godmersham”
- Italian: “Godmersham”
- Ladin: “Godmersham”
- Persian: “گادمرشم”
- Polish: “Godmersham”
- Spanish: “Godmersham”
- Swedish: “Godmersham”
- Welsh: “Godmersham”
- “Godmersham”
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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 “Godmersham”. Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.