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Kenardington
Church of St Mary, Kenardington
Kenardington is located in Kent
Kenardington
Kenardington
Location within Kent
Area7.47 km2 (2.88 sq mi)
Population283 (Civil Parish 2021)[1]
• Density38/km2 (98/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTQ972330
Civil parish
  • Kenardington
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townAshford
Postcode districtTN26
Dialling code01233
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
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UK
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Kent
51°03′44″N 0°48′55″E / 51.0623°N 0.8153°E / 51.0623; 0.8153

Kenardington is a small clustered village and the centre of a relatively small rural civil parish of the same name, in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is centred 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Ashford on the B2067 Hamstreet to Tenterden road.

Geography[edit]

Kenardington is on the edge of Romney Marsh, which its church of St Mary (with its tower dated 1170 AD) overlooks from a hilltop. The site of the church was once the scene of a battle, being stormed by the Danes in the 10th century and it stands on the site of what seems to have been a small Saxon fort, the remains of its earthworks now largely ploughed out of sight in fields used as arable land.

Amenities and long distance tour routes[edit]

Kenardington had a village shop/post office until a date in the 1980s since which the nearest shops and railway station are in Hamstreet approximately two miles away. The south-west of the parish is a wooded public park and has picnic areas.

The Saxon Shore Way and Royal Military Canal pass through.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Media related to Kenardington at Wikimedia Commons


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