Smeeth

Smeeth
Smeeth
	St Mary the Virgin's Church
	Smeeth Location within Kent
Area	8.29 km2 (3.20 sq mi)
Population	924 (Civil Parish 2011)
• Density	111/km2 (290/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TR072397
Civil parish	Smeeth;
District	Ashford;
Shire county	Kent;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ASHFORD
Postcode district	TN25
Dialling code	01303
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Ashford;
	List of places UK England Kent 51°07′08″N 0°57′42″E / 51.1189°N 0.9616°E

Smeeth is a mostly agricultural land use village and civil parish, centred 4 miles (6.4 km) 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

^ Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 10 May 2014
^ Ashford Borough Council

External links

Media related to Smeeth at Wikimedia Commons

Statistical civil parish overview - map

[ons-1] Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 10 May 2014

[2] Ashford Borough Council

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