Boxley
Boxley is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. It lies below the slope of the North Downs approximately 2 miles northeast of the centre of Maidstone town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 9,580 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Maidstone District, Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Boxley, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Mary’s and All Saints Church, Boxley and The King’s Arms.
St Mary’s and All Saints Church, Boxley
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's and All Saints is a parish church in Boxley, Kent begun in the 13th century and with additions in the 14th and 15th centuries. The church was restored in the 1870s. It is a Grade I listed building.
Boxley Abbey
Archaeological site
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boxley Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Sandling, near Maidstone in Kent, England. It sits at the foot of the North Downs and falls within the parish of Boxley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Penenden Heath and Ringlestone.
Penenden Heath
Village
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penenden Heath is a suburb of the town of Maidstone in the English county of Kent. As the name suggests, it was developed on an area of heathland, an area of which remains as a recreation ground with some woodland.
Ringlestone
Suburb
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ringlestone is a suburb and housing estate in the town of Maidstone, Kent, England. It is on the eastern side of the River Medway, near Allington, 1.2 miles north of Maidstone town centre. Ringlestone is situated 1½ miles southwest of Boxley.
Grove Green
Hamlet
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grove Green is a suburban housing development, partially forming a part of Weavering village, near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The population of the development is included in the civil parish of Boxley. Grove Green is situated 1½ miles south of Boxley.
Boxley
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Boxley, Maidstone, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3016° or 51° 18′ 6″ northLongitude
0.54312° or 0° 32′ 35″ eastPopulation
9,580Elevation
217 feet (66 metres)Open location code
9F328G2V+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 255121235OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2655040Wikidata ID
Q301948
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Boxley” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “বক্সলে”
- Cebuano: “Boxley”
- Chinese: “博克希雷”
- Chinese: “博克斯利”
- Dutch: “Boxley”
- French: “Boxley”
- German: “Boxley”
- Gujarati: “બોક્સલી”
- Irish: “Boxley”
- Japanese: “ボックスリー”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಕ್ಸ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “박슬리”
- Ladin: “Boxley”
- Latin: “Boxleia”
- Lithuanian: “Bokslis”
- Polish: “Boxley”
- Portuguese: “Boxley”
- Russian: “Боксли”
- Spanish: “Boxley”
- Swedish: “Boxley”
- Tamil: “போஸ்ளே”
- Telugu: “బాక్స్లీ”
- Turkish: “Boxley”
- Urdu: “بوزلے”
- Welsh: “Boxley”
- “Boxley”
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