Yelsted
Yelsted is a hamlet in the Borough of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, England. In 1800, Edward Hasted noted that it was spelt Gillested. It was a manor in the parish of Stockbury, the manor-house was owned by 'John de Savage'.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Guildsted” and “Yelsted, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Foxburrow Wood and St Mary Magdalene Church, Stockbury.
Foxburrow Wood
Forest
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Foxburrow Wood is a 6.1-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Rainham in Kent. It is owned and managed by Medway Council. This is a remnant of a much larger historic wood, and it has flora which are indicators of ancient woodland such as herb paris and bluebells.
St Mary Magdalene Church, Stockbury
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary Magdalene is a parish church in Stockbury, Kent built in the late 12th century with additions in the 13th and 15th centuries and restoration in the 19th century.
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary School
School
Rainham is a town in the unitary authority area of Medway, in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Chatham, Rochester, Strood and Gillingham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dunn Street and Rainham.
Dunn Street
Hamlet
Dunn Street is a hamlet near the village of Bredhurst and the M2 motorway, in Maidstone District, in the English county of Kent. It is south of the town of Gillingham. Dunn Street is situated 2 miles west of Yelsted.
Rainham
Photo: ClemRutter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rainham is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Gillingham, Chatham, Rochester and Strood it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns. There is also a town of Rainham in Essex.
Lidsing
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lidsing is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Boxley, in the Maidstone district, in the county of Kent, England. It is near the M2 motorway and south of Gillingham, adjacent to Bredhurst. In 1911 the parish had a population of 98. Lidsing is situated 2½ miles west of Yelsted.
Yelsted
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Stockbury, Maidstone, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.33093° or 51° 19′ 51″ northLongitude
0.61735° or 0° 37′ 2″ eastElevation
272 feet (83 metres)Open location code
9F328JJ8+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 255281771OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Yelsted” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Yelsted”
- French: “Yelsted”
- Irish: “Yelsted”
- Polish: “Yelsted”
- Welsh: “Yelsted”
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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 “Yelsted”. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 4.0.