Kent
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St. Cosmus & St. Damian in the Blean

Blean

Blean is a village and civil parish in the of , England. The civil parish is large and is mostly woodland, much of which is ancient woodland.
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  • Type: Village with 1,540 residents
  • Description: village in Kent, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Blean, Kent”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Cosmus and St Damian and Church Woods.

Church
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Forest
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, Blean is a 526.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of in . It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, a National Nature Reserve, a Special Area of Conservation and part of it is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve.

Church
Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Honey Hill and Denstroude.

Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet on the A290 road, in the civil parish of Blean, in the Canterbury district, in the county of , England.

Hamlet
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a dispersed hamlet located to the west of the A290 road north of in , England. It is a collection of houses and farms, one of which takes its name from the hamlet; the other being Parsonage Farm, although there is no church nearby.

Village
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village on the northern outskirts of , in England. The population is included in the civil parish of . Its name derives from the useful clay soils that are abundant in the area.

Blean

Latitude
51.30923° or 51° 18′ 33″ north
Longitude
1.0414° or 1° 2′ 29″ east
Population
1,540
Elevation
259 feet (79 metres)
Open location code
9F33825R+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 28282136
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2655365
Wiki­data ID
Q2741069
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Satellite Map

Discover Blean from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Blean” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Блеан”
  • Cebuano: “Blean”
  • Dutch: “Blean”
  • French: “Blean”
  • Irish: “Blean”
  • Japanese: “ブリーン”
  • Persian: “بلین، کنت”
  • Polish: “Blean”
  • Portuguese: “Blean”
  • Russian: “Блин (Кент)”
  • Spanish: “Blean, Kent”
  • Spanish: “Blean”
  • Swedish: “Blean”
  • Turkish: “Blean”
  • Welsh: “Blean”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Blean Village Hall and Keir’s Meadow.

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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 “Blean”. Photo: Thomas Grant, CC BY-SA 2.0.