Rabbit’s Cross

Rabbit’s Cross is a hamlet in Boughton Monchelsea, Maidstone, England. Rabbit’s Cross is situated nearby to the hamlet Lamb’s Cross, as well as near Cross-at-Hand.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Staplehurst railway station and Sutton Valence Castle.

Staplehurst railway station

Railway station

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Staplehurst railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the village of Staplehurst, Kent. It is 41 miles 70 chains down the line from London Charing Cross. Staplehurst railway station is situated 2 miles south of Rabbit’s Cross.

Sutton Valence Castle

Ruins

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Sutton Valence Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the village of Sutton Valence in Kent, England. Overlooking a strategic route to the coast, the original castle probably comprised an inner and an outer bailey and a protective barbican, with a three-storey high keep on its southern side. Sutton Valence Castle is situated 2 miles northeast of Rabbit’s Cross.

Sutton Valence School

School

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Sutton Valence School is a private school near Maidstone in southeast England. It has 560 pupils. It is a co-educational day and boarding school. There are three senior boarding houses: Westminster, St Margaret's and Sutton. Sutton Valence School is situated 2 miles northeast of Rabbit’s Cross.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Langley Heath and Chainhurst.

Langley Heath

Village

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Langley Heath is a village, which is situated 3 miles northeast of Rabbit’s Cross.

Chainhurst

Hamlet

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Chainhurst is a wealden village in Kent, England, and is part of Marden civil parish and Maidstone District. It is about 2 miles north of Marden, below Bidborough Ridge, and south of the River Beult floodplain. Chainhurst is situated 3½ miles west of Rabbit’s Cross.

Kingswood

Village

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Kingswood is a village in the Maidstone District of Kent, England and forms part of the civil parish of Broomfield and Kingswood. The main village was constructed in the early 1960s, after earlier sporadic development in both Pitt and Gravelly Bottom Roads on land given to soldiers returning from WW1. Kingswood is situated 4 miles northeast of Rabbit’s Cross.

Rabbit’s Cross

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Boughton Monchelsea, Maidstone, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.19772° or 51° 11′ 52″ north

Longitude

0.55414° or 0° 33′ 15″ east

Elevation

59 feet (18 metres)

Open location code

9F325HX3+3M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13742976961

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13274929

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