Lenham
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Image:Lenham Cross.jpgLenham is a market village in Kent situated on the southern edge of the North Downs, halfway between Maidstone and Ashford. The picturesque square in the village has two public houses (one of which is a hotel), a couple of restaurants, and a tea-room.grid reference TQ897522.
The village is at the main source of the River Great Stour, with one of its tributaries, the River Upper Great Stour sourced near here and the Stour Valley Walk starts here, heading to Ashford and on to Canterbury and the English Channel near Sandwich.
Mentioned in the Domesday Book, Lenham market dates back to 1088, when the village was an important crossroad settlement. Technically the fact that Lenham is allowed a market, makes it a town but the community have always desired to maintain its village status.
The Pilgrims' Way/North Downs Way passes just to the north of Lenham, higher up on the 'downs' and it features a war memorial of a chalk cross carved into the scarp slope of the downs (hill figure).
The parish church is called the Church of St Mary.([1])
There is a primary school (Lenham Primary) and secondary school (Swadelands) at Lenham.
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| The town of Maidstone in Kent, South East England with the surrounding suburbs, villages, towns and parishes: | |
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Allington • Barming • Bearsted • Bedmonton • Bicknor • Boughton Malherbe • Boughton Monchelsea • Boxley • Bredhurst • Broomfield • Chart Sutton • Chegworth • Collier Street • Coxheath • Detling • Downswood • East Barming • East Farleigh • East Sutton • Fairbourne • Frinsted • Grove Green • Harrietsham • Headcorn • Hollingbourne • Hucking • Hunton • Kingswood • Kit's Coty • Langley • Leeds • Lenham • Linton • Loose • Lordswood • Marden • Marley • Nettlestead • Nettlestead Green • Otham • Park Wood • Pollhill • Sandling • Shepway • Sutton Valence • Staplehurst • Stockbury • Teston • Thurnham • Tovil • Ulcombe • Weavering • West Farleigh • Wormshill • Yalding | |
| The borough of Maidstone List of places in Kent | |
