Kent
Kent is the most south-easterly county of England. It is popularly known as the "Garden of England" and its coastal areas are popular with visitors.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lashenden and Headcorn railway station.
Lashenden
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Headcorn Aerodrome is a private airfield in Kent, England. The airfield is located 8 NM south of Maidstone; about 32 miles southeast of London. Opened in 1943 during the Second World War, it was named RAF Lashenden.
Headcorn railway station
Railway station
Photo: Anthony Eden, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Headcorn railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the village of Headcorn, Kent. It is 45 miles 20 chains down the line from London Charing Cross.
Lashenden Air Warfare Museum
Museum
Lashenden Air Warfare Museum is an aviation museum at Lashenden Airfield in Kent in southeast England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Biddenden and Boughton Malherbe.
Biddenden
Village
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biddenden is a large, mostly agricultural and wooded village and civil parish in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. The village lies on the Weald of Kent, 5 miles north of Tenterden. Biddenden is situated 3½ miles south of Kent.
Boughton Malherbe
Village
Photo: Dave Skinner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boughton Malherbe is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent, England, equidistant between Maidstone and Ashford. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 428, including Sandway and Grafty Green, increasing to 476 at the 2011 Census. Boughton Malherbe is situated 3½ miles north of Kent.
Harrietsham
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Harrietsham is a rural and industrial village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, it had a population of 1,504, increasing to 2,113 at the 2011 Census. Harrietsham is situated 5 miles north of Kent.
Kent
- Also known as: “County of Kent”
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.1667° or 51° 10′ northLongitude
0.6667° or 0° 40′ eastPopulation
1,540,000Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)Abbreviation
“KEN”Open location code
9F325M88+MMGeoNames ID
3333158
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kent” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كنت”
- Belarusian: “Графства Кент”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Kent”
- Bulgarian: “Кент”
- Chinese: “肯特郡”
- Cornish: “Kint”
- Gothic: “𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌹 𐌺𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍄𐌹𐍃”
- Greek: “Κεντ”
- Hebrew: “קנט”
- Hindi: “केंट”
- Japanese: “ケント”
- Korean: “켄트 주”
- Latin: “Cantium”
- Latvian: “Kenta”
- Lithuanian: “Kentas”
- Marathi: “केंट”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cent”
- Persian: “کنت”
- Russian: “Кент”
- Serbian: “Кент”
- Thai: “เคนต์”
- Uighur: “Ként”
- Ukrainian: “Кент”
- Urdu: “کینٹ”
- Welsh: “Caint”
- Western Panjabi: “کینٹ”
- Yiddish: “קענט”
- Yue Chinese: “根德郡”
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