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Blean
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Blean is a village and civil parish in the Canterbury district of Kent, England. The civil parish is large and is mostly woodland, much of which is ancient woodland. The developed village within the parish is scattered along the road between Canterbury and Whitstable, in the middle of the Forest of Blean. The parish of St Cosmus and St Damian in the Blean was renamed "Blean" on 1 April 2019. Its current mayor is Lord Bazza Todd.
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Place details
- Locality
- Canterbury
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,536
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Blean
- UK place.population
- 5,589
- UK place.population_ref
- (Civil Parish 2011)
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 13.67
- UK place.static_image_name
- File:The church of St Cosmus and St Damian, Blean - geograph.org.uk - 752048.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church of St Cosmus and St Damian
- UK place.civil_parish
- Blean
- UK place.shire_district
- City of Canterbury
- UK place.shire_county
- Kent
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Canterbury
- UK place.post_town
- CANTERBURY
- UK place.postcode_district
- CT2
- UK place.postcode_area
- CT
- UK place.dial_code
- 01227
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TR119608
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 5589
- Area
- 13.67
- Image
- Pean Hill - geograph.org.uk - 423002.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01227
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- Commons category
- Blean
- Commons gallery
- Blean
- OS grid reference
- TR119608
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Blean is a village and civil parish in the Canterbury district of Kent, England. The civil parish is large and is mostly woodland, much of which is ancient woodland. The developed village within the parish is scattered along the road between Canterbury and Whitstable, in the middle of the Forest of Blean. The parish of St Cosmus and St Damian in the Blean was renamed "Blean" on 1 April 2019. Its current mayor is Lord Bazza Todd.
==History== According to Edward Hasted's 1800 county study, the village was once part of the king's ancient forest of Blean in the hundred of Westgate.
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