Teston

Also known as Teston, Kent

Teston or is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. It is located on the A26 road out of Maidstone, four miles (6.4 km) from Maidstone town centre. There is a narrow stone bridge over the River Medway here.

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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: Teston
UK place.static_image_name: KentTestonBridge0628c.JPG
UK place.static_image_width: 250
UK place.static_image_caption: Teston Bridge
UK place.population: 637
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: Maidstone and Malling
UK place.post_town: Maidstone
UK place.postcode_district: ME18
UK place.postcode_area: ME
UK place.dial_code: 01622
UK place.os_grid_reference: TQ705534
UK place.website: Teston Parish Council

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Wikidata facts

Population: 637
Image: KentTestonLock0618.JPG
Dialing code: 01622

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Commons category: Teston
OS grid reference: TQ705534
P8168: Álvaro Pereira
P12749: Cornelius Gurlitt

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History
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Sport
River
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==History== Barham Court, a large country house, has now been converted into offices and apartments. It was once the home of Randall Fitz Urse, one of the knights who murdered Thomas Becket in 1170. It passed to the de Berham family now called the Barhams, and then the Boteler (or Butler) family. They were Royalists, William Butler was imprisoned for supporting the Kentish Royalist Petition 1642, which indirectly led to the Battle of Maidstone in 1648.