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Frinsted
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Frinsted or Frinstead is a small village and civil parish in the ecclesiastical parish of Wormshill and in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. and has been a recorded settlement (under the name Fredenestede) as far back as the Domesday Book and indeed was the only settlement in the surrounding area to be described at the time to have a church. The village exists in the Hundred of Eyhorne (and has been mentioned as such dating back to the Kent Hundred Rolls of 1274 to 1275).
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Place details
- Locality
- Maidstone
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Frinsted
- UK place.static_image
- StDunstanFrinsted.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 237px
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Dunstan's church
- UK place.population
- 143
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.shire_district
- Maidstone
- UK place.shire_county
- Kent
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Faversham and Mid Kent
- UK place.post_town
- Sittingbourne
- UK place.postcode_district
- ME9
- UK place.postcode_area
- ME
- UK place.dial_code
- 01622
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TQ8957
- UK place.civil_parish
- Wormshill
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 143
- Image
- StDunstanFrinsted.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01622
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- Frinsted
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- TQ8957
- postal code
- ME9
- P8168
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- Early history
- 19th and 20th centuries
- Etymology
- See also
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Frinsted or Frinstead is a small village and civil parish in the ecclesiastical parish of Wormshill and in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. and has been a recorded settlement (under the name Fredenestede) as far back as the Domesday Book and indeed was the only settlement in the surrounding area to be described at the time to have a church. The village exists in the Hundred of Eyhorne (and has been mentioned as such dating back to the Kent Hundred Rolls of 1274 to 1275).
The parish is situated on the North Downs between Sittingbourne and Maidstone some south of The Swale. To the West lies the village of Wormshill, to the North East the village of Milstead, the hamlet of Kingsdown and the Torry Hill estate and to the South and South East are the villages of Doddington and Newnham. The part of the parish northward of the church is in the division of East Kent, but the church itself, and the remaining part of it is in West Kent.
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