Frittenden
Frittenden is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the flood plain of one of the tributaries of the River Medway, 15 miles to the east of Tunbridge Wells: the village is three miles south of Headcorn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 267 residents
- Description: a village located in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Frittenden, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bell And Jorrocks Public House and Sissinghurst Castle Garden.
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Garden
Photo: Schnobby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Sissinghurst Castle Garden is situated 2 miles south of Frittenden.
Lashenden
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Headcorn Aerodrome is a private airfield in Kent, England. The airfield is located 8 NM south of Maidstone; about 32 miles southeast of London. Opened in 1943 during the Second World War, it was named RAF Lashenden. Lashenden is situated 2½ miles northeast of Frittenden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sissinghurst and Biddenden.
Sissinghurst
Village
Photo: Immanuel Giel, Public domain.
Sissinghurst is a small village in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. Originally called Milkhouse Street, Sissinghurst changed its name in the 1850s, possibly to avoid association with the smuggling and cockfighting activities of the Hawkhurst Gang. Sissinghurst is situated 2½ miles southwest of Frittenden.
Biddenden
Village
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biddenden is a large, mostly agricultural and wooded village and civil parish in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. The village lies on the Weald of Kent, 5 miles north of Tenterden. Biddenden is situated 3 miles southeast of Frittenden.
Horden
Hamlet
Horden is a village in the Maidstone district of Kent, England. The population is included in the civil parish of Goudhurst. The village takes its name from the Horden family: Edward Horden was a courtier to three Tudor monarchs, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, serving as Clerk of the Green Cloth. Horden is situated 3½ miles west of Frittenden.
Frittenden
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Frittenden, Tunbridge Wells District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.14043° or 51° 8′ 26″ northLongitude
0.59282° or 0° 35′ 34″ eastPopulation
267Elevation
115 feet (35 metres)Open location code
9F324HRV+54OpenStreetMap ID
node 29457624OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2649037Wikidata ID
Q769892
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Frittenden” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Frittenden”
- Dutch: “Frittenden”
- French: “Frittenden”
- Irish: “Frittenden”
- Italian: “Frittenden”
- Ladin: “Frittenden”
- Persian: “فریتندن”
- Polish: “Frittenden”
- Spanish: “Frittenden”
- Swedish: “Frittenden”
- Turkish: “Frittenden”
- Welsh: “Frittenden”
- “Frittenden”
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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 “Frittenden”. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.