Smeeth Explained

Country:England
Official Name:Smeeth
Coordinates:51.1189°N 0.9616°W
Civil Parish:Smeeth
Population:924
Area Total Km2:8.29
Population Ref:(Civil Parish 2011)[1]
Static Image:St Mary, Smeeth, Kent - geograph.org.uk - 325374.jpg
Static Image Caption:St Mary the Virgin's Church
Shire District:Ashford
Shire County:Kent
Region:South East England
Constituency Westminster:Ashford
Post Town:ASHFORD
Postcode District:TN25
Postcode Area:TN
Dial Code:01303
Os Grid Reference:TR072397

Smeeth is a mostly agricultural land use village and civil parish, centred east of Ashford in the Ashford Borough of Kent, England.

Geography

Smeeth is a small village in population near Mersham Hatch Park on the A20 road from Ashford to Folkestone.

The church of St Mary the Virgin contains some Norman work such as the south doorway, tower archways and chancel.[2] Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne is buried in the churchyard.

Three east-west routes pass quite near to the middle of the parish and are aligned east-west: the M20 motorway, the A20 single carriageway road and the High Speed 1 railway line connecting to the Channel Tunnel. Most of the development is residential and all of the neighbourhoods are north of the motorway. The parish has many headwaters to the East Stour which bounds Smeeth to its south. The far northern borders are contiguous with Brabourne Lees and link into its main 'village street' directly; this is also where most of the buffer land is woodland.

References

  1. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density
  2. http://www.ashford.gov.uk/about_the_borough/towns_and_villages/smeeth.aspx Ashford Borough Council

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