Chevening
Chevening House is a large country house in the parish of Chevening in Kent, England. Built between 1617 and 1630 to a design reputedly by Inigo Jones and greatly extended after 1717, it is a Grade I listed building.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: country house in Chevening, Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Chevening House”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dunton Green railway station and St Katharine’s Church, Knockholt.
Dunton Green railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ravenseft, CC BY-SA 2.0 uk.
Dunton Green railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the Kent village of Dunton Green. It is 20 miles 46 chains down the line from London Charing Cross and is situated between Knockholt and Sevenoaks stations.
St Katharine’s Church, Knockholt
Church
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Katharine's Church is an Anglican parish church in the village of Knockholt and the Sevenoaks deanery. St Katharine's and St Margaret's came together in 1983 as a United Benefice under one parish priest.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sevenoaks and Westerham.
Sevenoaks
Photo: ParrotWatcher, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sevenoaks is a town in Kent, in the South East of England. Sevenoaks is a fairly traditional market town, although these days, given its proximity to London, it is known largely as a commuter town.
Westerham
Photo: Ross Burgess, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Westerham is a town of 4,500 people in Kent. The River Darent, which flows through the town, used to power three watermills.
Riverhead
Village
Riverhead is a northern village part of the urban area of Sevenoaks in the district of the same name in Kent, England and is also a civil parish. The parish had a population in 2001 of 1821, increasing to 2,634 at the 2011 Census.
Chevening
- Category: English country house
- Location: Sevenoaks, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2989° or 51° 17′ 56″ northLongitude
0.1315° or 0° 7′ 53″ eastElevation
322 feet (98 metres)Open location code
9F3274XJ+GJOpenStreetMap ID
node 2277740496OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Chevening” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chevening (parokya)”
- Chinese: “志奮領”
- Chinese: “捨夫宁”
- Chinese: “舍夫宁”
- Chinese: “舍夫寧”
- French: “Chevening”
- German: “Chevening House”
- German: “Chevening Park”
- German: “Chevening”
- Japanese: “シェブニング・ハウス”
- Japanese: “チーヴニング・ハウス”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chevening”
- Russian: “Чивнинг”
- Sindhi: “چونينگ هائوس”
- Sindhi: “چونينگ”
- Swedish: “Chevening”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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