Elvington
Elvington is a small pit village on a ridge in between Canterbury and Dover in the county of Kent in Southeast England. Located near Eythorne, Elvington was mostly built in the early 20th century to serve the nearby coal mine at Tilmanstone, as were other Kent Coalfield villages including Snowdown, Aylesham and Betteshanger.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Kent, UK
- Also known as: “Elvington, Kent” and “Halt Elrington”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Peter and St Paul and Eythorne railway station.
Eythorne railway station
Railway station
Eythorne railway station is a station on the East Kent Railway. Originally a station on the East Kent Light Railway, It opened on 16 October 1916 but closed to passenger traffic after the last train on 30 October 1948.
Eythorne Baptist Church
Church
Eythorne Baptist Church originated in the meetings of early 16th century Baptists who had crossed the English Channel from the Low Countries to Kent to escape persecution.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eythorne and Barfrestone.
Eythorne
Village
Eythorne is a civil parish and small village located 7.3 miles north-northwest of Dover in Kent, with a combined population of approximately 2,500 residents including nearby villages Barfrestone and Elvington.
Barfrestone
Hamlet
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barfrestone is a village and a former civil parish, now in the parish of Eythorne, in the Dover district, in east Kent, England. It is between Shepherdswell, Eythorne and Nonington, close to the former pit villages of Elvington and Snowdown.
Frogham
Hamlet
Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Frogham is a hamlet in the Dover District of East Kent, England, 7 miles north west of Dover. It is located between the former coal mining village of Aylesham and Shepherdswell.
Elvington
- Category: locality
- Location: Eythorne, Dover District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.20673° or 51° 12′ 24″ northLongitude
1.25909° or 1° 15′ 33″ eastElevation
276 feet (84 metres)Open location code
9F336745+MJOpenStreetMap ID
node 29264763OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Elvington” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Elvington, Kent”
- French: “Elvington (Kent)”
- French: “Elvington, Kent”
- French: “Elvington”
- Irish: “Elvington”
- Polish: “Elvington (Kent)”
- Polish: “Elvington”
- Ukrainian: “Елвінгтон”
- Welsh: “Elvington, Caint”
- Welsh: “Elvington”
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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 “Elvington”. Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.