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Wateringbury is a village and civil parish near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The Wateringbury Stream flows into the River Medway just above Bow Bridge. It formerly powered three watermills in the village, one of which survives.
Civil Parish Civil Parish Population 2011 Area (km 2) 2011 Pre 1974 District District; Acol: 295 [1] 2.15 Eastry Rural District [2] Thanet: Acrise: 172 [3] 5.43 Elham Rural District [4] Folkestone and Hythe: Addington: 769 [5] 3.35 Malling Rural District [6] Tonbridge and Malling: Adisham: 645 [7] 11.82 Bridge-Blean Rural District [8 ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Parish Church: c. 1300: 25 August 1959 ... Wateringbury: Parish Church:
Mereworth (/ ˈ m ɛr i w ɜːr θ / MERRY-worth) [2] is a village and civil parish near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The Wateringbury Stream flows through the village and powered a watermill , the site of which now lies within the grounds of Mereworth Castle .
The Wateringbury stream is a tributary of the River Medway in Kent, England. It rises at Swanton, West Peckham parish, flows south east towards Mereworth and then flows in a generally easterly direction to join the River Medway at Wateringbury. It is some four miles (6 km) long and powered a number of watermills.
Nettlestead is a village and civil parish on the road south-west of, and part of the borough of Maidstone. The parish includes Nettlestead Green and part of Seven Mile Lane. More than 800 people live in the parish. The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has links with William the Conqueror's half brother, Odo. [2]
Visitor attractions in the constituency include the River Medway, the Eden Valley Walk which covers Edenbridge and Penshurst, including Hever Castle, Chiddingstone Castle, Penshurst Place and Tonbridge Castle. In this seat are numerous oast houses and remaining Wealden woodlands. Residents' wealth and house prices are both higher than the UK ...
The Domesday Book records three mills at Otringeberge (Wateringbury). Two mills were held by Ralf, son of Turald and valued at 3/-, a third was held by Hugh de Braibourne and worth 16d. This mill was marked on C & G Greenwood's map of Kent, 1822. It was not mentioned in a survey of the parish carried out in 1828. C