Eccles
Eccles is a village in the English county of Kent, part of the parish of Aylesford, and in the valley of the River Medway. It is between Aylesford village and Burham, both a mile away.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Kent, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Eccles, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Red Bull Public House and Coffin Stone.
Coffin Stone
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Coffin Stone, also known as the Coffin and the Table Stone, is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent.
Kit’s Coty House
Archaeological site
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kit's Coty House or Kit's Coty is a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent. Constructed circa 4000 BCE, during the Early Neolithic period of British prehistory, today it survives in a ruined state.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aylesford Priory and Kit’s Coty.
Aylesford Priory
Locality
Aylesford Priory, or "The Friars" was founded in 1242 when members of the Carmelite order arrived in England from Mount Carmel in the Holy Land. Richard de Grey, a crusader, sponsored them, and conveyed to the order a parcel of land located on his manor in Aylesford in Kent.
Kit’s Coty
Hamlet
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kit's Coty is a small village on the slopes of Blue Bell Hill between Maidstone and Rochester in the English county of Kent. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Aylesford.
Eccles
- Category: locality
- Location: Aylesford, Tonbridge and Malling District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.31777° or 51° 19′ 4″ northLongitude
0.48107° or 0° 28′ 52″ eastElevation
105 feet (32 metres)Open location code
9F328F9J+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 255117528OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Eccles” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Eccles, Kent”
- French: “Eccles”
- Irish: “Eccles”
- Japanese: “エクルズ”
- Lithuanian: “Eklsas”
- Polish: “Eccles (Kent)”
- Polish: “Eccles”
- Spanish: “Eccles (Kent)”
- Spanish: “Eccles”
- Swedish: “Eccles, Kent”
- Swedish: “Eccles”
- Welsh: “Eccles, Caint”
- Welsh: “Eccles”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Church in Eccles and Eccles Post Office.
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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 “Eccles”. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.