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Formerly the Museum of Kent Life, 28-acre (110,000 m 2) heritage farm, historic houses, farm and village buildings Kent Museum of Freemasonry: Canterbury: City of Canterbury: Masonic: Masonic history, paintings, glassware, porcelain, regalia Kent Police Museum: Chatham: Medway: Law enforcement: History of the Kent County Constabulary: Killick's ...
List of settlements in Kent by population; List of civil parishes in Kent; Category:Civil parishes in Kent; Category:Towns in Kent; Category:Villages in Kent; Category:Geography of Kent; List of places in England
Ashford Borough Museum ; Chatham Historic Dockyard; Dolphin Yard Sailing Barge Museum ; Dover Museum; Kent Battle of Britain Museum; Kent International Airport (formerly known as London Manston Airport) with two aviation museums
Maidstone is the largest town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town.Maidstone is historically important and lies 32 miles (51 km) east-south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, linking it with Rochester and the Thames Estuary.
Deal is a coastal town in Kent, England, which lies where the North Sea and the English Channel meet, 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Dover and 8 miles (13 km) south of Ramsgate. It is a former fishing, mining and garrison town whose history is closely linked to the anchorage in the Downs .
The Kent Life site in 2006, showing the barn and oast. Kent Life (formerly the Museum of Kent Life and Kent Life Heritage Farm Park) is a farm park located at Sandling near Maidstone, next to Allington Locks on the east bank of the River Medway. It once operated as an open-air museum, before rebranding as a heritage farm park. [1]
This is a list of settlements in Kent by population based on the results of the 2011 census. Another United Kingdom census took place in 2021. In 2011, there were 44 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Kent, shown in the table below. See the List of places in Kent article for an extensive list of local places and districts.
In 1864 the town was renamed Kent in honor of and in gratitude for Marvin Kent's efforts. It was incorporated as a village in 1867 and became a city after the 1920 Census. Today Kent is a college town best known as the home of the main campus of Kent State University, founded in 1910, and as the site of the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings.