South East England
Kent
Swale District

Faversham

Faversham is a town in the county of , UK. The history of the town can traced back 2000 years to Roman times. Explosives were a major local industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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  • Type: Town with 20,400 residents
  • Description: town in the English county of Kent
  • Also known as: “Faversham, Kent”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Faversham Guildhall and Faversham railway station.

Town hall
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is a municipal building in the Market Place in Faversham, , England. The structure, which was the meeting place of Faversham Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

Railway station
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is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Faversham, . It is 51 miles 77 chains down the line from . The station and all trains that call are operated by Southeastern.

Historic building
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is a hospital, monastery, hostel, retirement home and royal lodge commissioned by Henry III in 1234. The timber framed building is located beside Watling Street, now the A2 road, in , Faversham, in Kent, England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Goodnestone and Davington.

Hamlet
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is a village in the civil parish of Graveney with , in the Swale district of , England. The village is mainly on the road 'Head Hill Road' towards .

Suburb
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is a suburb of Faversham, in the Swale district, in the county of , England. Priory is a local government ward within the Faversham Town Council and Swale Borough Council areas.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet to the south of Faversham in , . A stream rises at Westbrook, a small distance south of . At the 2011 Census, the population was included in the civil parish of .

Faversham

Latitude
51.3158° or 51° 18′ 57″ north
Longitude
0.8911° or 0° 53′ 28″ east
Population
20,400
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB FAV
Open location code
9F328V8R+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27158962
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2649622
Wiki­data ID
Q1000115
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Faversham” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيفرزهام”
  • Asturian: “Faversham”
  • Basque: “Faversham”
  • Bengali: “ফেভারশাম”
  • Catalan: “Faversham”
  • Cebuano: “Faversham”
  • Chinese: “法弗沙姆”
  • Chinese: “法弗舍姆”
  • Chinese: “菲佛舍姆”
  • Czech: “Faversham”
  • Dutch: “Faversham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيفرزهام”
  • Esperanto: “Faversham”
  • French: “Faversham”
  • German: “Faversham”
  • Greek: “Φάβερσαμ”
  • Gujarati: “ફેવર્સહામ”
  • Hebrew: “פאוורשאם”
  • Hungarian: “Faversham”
  • Irish: “Faversham”
  • Italian: “Faversham”
  • Japanese: “フェーヴァーシャム”
  • Japanese: “フェイバーシャム”
  • Kannada: “ಫೇವರ್ಶಾಮ್”
  • Korean: “파버샴”
  • Ladin: “Faversham”
  • Latvian: “Feveršema”
  • Lithuanian: “Feivešemas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Faversham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faversham”
  • Persian: “فاورشام”
  • Polish: “Faversham”
  • Portuguese: “Faversham”
  • Romanian: “Faversham”
  • Russian: “Фавершам”
  • Russian: “Фавершем”
  • Serbian: “Фавершам”
  • Slovak: “Faversham”
  • Slovenian: “Faversham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فاورشام”
  • Spanish: “Faversham”
  • Swedish: “Faversham”
  • Tamil: “பாவர்ஷம்”
  • Telugu: “ఫేవెర్శాం”
  • Turkish: “Faversham”
  • Ukrainian: “Фейвешем”
  • Urdu: “فاویرشام”
  • Volapük: “Faversham”
  • Welsh: “Faversham”
  • Western Frisian: “Faversham”

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