Lynsted
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Lynsted is a village in Lynsted with Kingsdown civil parish in the Swale borough of Kent, England. The village is situated south of the A2 road between Faversham and Sittingbourne and the nearest M2 junction is Faversham three miles east. Lynsted is in many respects an archetypal old English village with church, churchyard with an ancient yew, pub (the Black Lion) and a duck pond. The village is locally referred to as Lovely, Lovely Lynsted and various songs have been written about it.
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Place details
- Locality
- Swale
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 619
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Scuttington Manor Oast, Dully Road, Lynsted, Kent - geograph.org.uk - 1449724.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Scuttington Manor Oast House
- UK place.static_image_2_name
- St Peter and St Paul, Lynsted, Kent - East end - geograph.org.uk - 324694.jpg
- UK place.static_image_2_caption
- inside church of St Peter and St Paul, Lynsted
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Lynsted
- UK place.civil_parish
- Lynsted with Kingsdown
- UK place.population
- 1,600
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.shire_district
- Swale
- 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_area
- ME
- UK place.postcode_district
- ME9
- UK place.dial_code
- 01795
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TQ 943608
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 1600
- Elevation
- 41
- Image
- Scuttington Manor Oast, Dully Road, Lynsted, Kent - geograph.org.uk - 1449724.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01795
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- Commons category
- Lynsted
- postal code
- ME9
- P8168
- 1999
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Lynsted is a village in Lynsted with Kingsdown civil parish in the Swale borough of Kent, England. The village is situated south of the A2 road between Faversham and Sittingbourne and the nearest M2 junction is Faversham three miles east. Lynsted is in many respects an archetypal old English village with church, churchyard with an ancient yew, pub (the Black Lion) and a duck pond. The village is locally referred to as Lovely, Lovely Lynsted and various songs have been written about it.
==Geography== The parish's southern part is on the north slope of the North Downs; Bluetown, Kingsdown is at 104 m above mean sea level and Erriottwood at 67 m. Its extent stretches from, in the north, the Roman road Watling Street, later named Greenstreet and now named London Road, where the hamlets south of it are Cellarhill or Cellar Hill and Claxfield (that borders across the road Teynham) to, in the south, Erriottwood. Bogle in the north-centre and Tickham in the east are the two other hamlets, within mile of the centre. The land drains well with chalks of the North Downs.
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