Chilham
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 379 residents
- Description: village in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Chilham, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary, Chilham and Chilham Castle.
Chilham Castle
Castle
Photo: Daywalker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Wives Lees and Godmersham.
Godmersham
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Godmersham is situated 2 miles south of Chilham.
Chartham
Village
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Chartham is a village and civil parish in the Canterbury district of Kent, England. It is situated on the Ashford side of the city, and is in the North Downs area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 2.3 mi south west of Canterbury, England. Chartham is situated 2½ miles east of Chilham.
Chilham
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Chilham, Ashford, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.24415° or 51° 14′ 39″ northLongitude
0.96323° or 0° 57′ 48″ eastPopulation
379Elevation
154 feet (47 metres)Open location code
9F326XV7+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 29164070OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2653167Wikidata ID
Q1004824
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Chilham” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Chilham”
- Bengali: “চিলহ্যাম”
- Cebuano: “Chilham”
- Chinese: “切尔汉姆”
- Chinese: “切爾咸”
- Chinese: “契罕”
- Dutch: “Chilham”
- French: “Chilham”
- German: “Chilham”
- Gujarati: “ચિલહામ”
- Irish: “Chilham”
- Italian: “Chilham”
- Japanese: “チラム”
- Kannada: “ಚಿಲ್ಹಮ್”
- Korean: “칠햄”
- Ladin: “Chilham”
- Lithuanian: “Čilhemas”
- Persian: “چیلهام”
- Polish: “Chilham”
- Portuguese: “Chilham”
- Russian: “Чилхэм”
- Spanish: “Chilham”
- Swedish: “Chilham”
- Tamil: “சில்ஹாம்”
- Telugu: “చిల్హం”
- Urdu: “چیلہام”
- Welsh: “Chilham”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Chilham Post Office and Chilham, St Mary’s Church of England Primary School.
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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 “Chilham”. Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.