Maidstone
Maidstone is the county town in Mid-Kent, in the South East of England on the River Medway. Straddling the river Medway, Maidstone is the economic, administrative and agricultural centre of Kent.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Maidstone Barracks railway station and Maidstone West railway station.
Maidstone Barracks railway station
Railway station
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Maidstone Barracks railway station is one of three railway stations which serve the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. Originally opened as Barracks station, it is named after the nearby Invicta Park Barracks and lies on the Medway Valley Line, 42 miles from London Charing Cross via Strood between Aylesford and Maidstone West.
Maidstone West railway station
Railway station
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Maidstone West railway station is one of three railway stations which serve the town of Maidstone, in Kent, England. It is on the Medway Valley Line, 42 miles 36 chains from London Charing Cross via Strood and situated between Maidstone Barracks and East Farleigh.
Maidstone East railway station
Railway station
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Maidstone East is one of three railway stations in the town of Maidstone, in Kent, England, but currently the only one with a regular all-day direct service to London.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ringlestone and Allington.
Ringlestone
Suburb
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Ringlestone is a suburb and housing estate in the town of Maidstone, Kent, England. It is on the eastern side of the River Medway, near Allington, 1.2 miles north of Maidstone town centre.
Allington
Suburb
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Allington is an almost entirely modern village situated alongside the sides of the A20 road north-west of Maidstone in Kent, England. It is part of the built-up area of Maidstone.
Penenden Heath
Village
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Penenden Heath is a suburb of the town of Maidstone in the English county of Kent. As the name suggests, it was developed on an area of heathland, an area of which remains as a recreation ground with some woodland.
Maidstone
- Type: Town with 113,000 residents
- Description: county town of Kent, England
- Categories: county town, unparished area, market town, and locality
- Location: Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2748° or 51° 16′ 29″ northLongitude
0.5232° or 0° 31′ 23″ eastPopulation
113,000Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MDTOpen location code
9F327GFF+W7OpenStreetMap ID
node 26630886OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Maidstone” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميدستون”
- Armenian: “Մեյդսթոուն”
- Asturian: “Maidstone”
- Azerbaijani: “Meydston”
- Basque: “Maidstone”
- Belarusian: “Мейдстан”
- Bengali: “মেইডস্টোন”
- Bulgarian: “Мейдстоун”
- Catalan: “Maidstone”
- Cebuano: “Maidstone (kapital sa kondado)”
- Cebuano: “Maidstone”
- Chinese: “梅德斯通”
- Chinese: “梅德斯通区”
- Chinese: “梅德斯通區”
- Chinese: “美善同”
- Cornish: “Maidstone”
- Croatian: “Maidstone, Kent”
- Croatian: “Maidstone”
- Czech: “Maidstone”
- Danish: “Maidstone”
- Dutch: “Maidstone”
- Esperanto: “Maidstone”
- Finnish: “Maidstone”
- French: “Maidstone”
- German: “Maidstone”
- Greek: “Μέιντστον”
- Greek: “Μέιντστοουν”
- Gujarati: “મેઇડસ્ટોન”
- Hebrew: “מאידסטון”
- Hebrew: “מיידסטון”
- Hindi: “मैडस्टोन”
- Hungarian: “Maidstone”
- Icelandic: “Maidstone”
- Indonesian: “Maidstone”
- Irish: “Maidstone”
- Italian: “Maidstone”
- Japanese: “メードストーン”
- Japanese: “メードストン”
- Japanese: “メイドストーン”
- Japanese: “メイドストン”
- Kannada: “ಮೇಡ್ಸ್ಟೋನ್”
- Korean: “메이드스톤”
- Ladin: “Maidstone”
- Latvian: “Meidstona”
- Lithuanian: “Maidstonas”
- Lithuanian: “Meidstonas”
- Malagasy: “Maidstone”
- Moksha: “Мэйдстон”
- Northern Frisian: “Maidstone”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maidstone”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maidstone”
- Norwegian: “Maidstone”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Maidstone”
- Ossetian: “Мейдстон”
- Persian: “میدستون”
- Persian: “میدنستون”
- Polish: “Maidstone”
- Portuguese: “Maidstone”
- Quechua: “Maidstone”
- Romanian: “Maidstone”
- Russian: “Мейдстон”
- Russian: “Мейдстоун”
- Scots: “Maidstone”
- Serbian: “Maidstone”
- Serbian: “Mejdston”
- Serbian: “Мејдстон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Maidstone”
- Silesian: “Maidstone”
- Slovak: “Maidstone”
- Slovenian: “Maidstone”
- South Azerbaijani: “میدستون”
- Spanish: “Maidstone”
- Swedish: “Maidstone”
- Tamil: “மைட்ஸ்டோன்”
- Tatar: “Мейдстоун”
- Telugu: “మిడ్స్టోన్”
- Thai: “เมดสโตน”
- Turkish: “Maidstone”
- Ukrainian: “Мейдстоун”
- Urdu: “میڈسٹن”
- Urdu: “میڈسٹون”
- Vietnamese: “Maidstone”
- Volapük: “Maidstone”
- Waray (Philippines): “Maidstone”
- Welsh: “Maidstone”
- Western Armenian: “Մէյտըսթոն”
- Western Frisian: “Maidstone”
- Yue Chinese: “美善同”
- “Maidstone”
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