Charing

Charing is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, in south-east England. It includes the settlements of Charing Heath and Westwell Leacon.

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Type: Village with 1,840 residents
Description: village and civil parish in Kent, UK
Also known as: “Charing, Kent”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Peter and St Paul and Charing railway station.

Church of St Peter and St Paul

Church

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Charing railway station

Railway station

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Charing railway station serves the village of Charing in Kent, England. It is 53 miles 11 chains down the line from London Victoria. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by Southeastern.

Charing Windmill

Windmill

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Charing Windmill is a Grade II listed smock windmill, now converted to a house, on Charing Hill in Kent in southeast England. It is sometimes known as Field Mill, but that name was also used by a watermill in Charing.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stalisfield Green and Lenham Heath.

Stalisfield Green

Hamlet

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Stalisfield is a village in the borough of Swale in Kent, England, located on a secondary road about 1½ miles north of Charing and 5 miles south west of Faversham. Stalisfield Green is situated 2 miles north of Charing.

Lenham Heath

Hamlet

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Lenham Heath is a hamlet in Kent situated on the southern edge of the North Downs, halfway between Maidstone and Ashford. grid reference TQ910500. The road through Lenham Heath runs parallel, and close to High Speed 1 and the M20 motorway. Lenham Heath is situated 2½ miles west of Charing.