Egerton, Kent

Egerton
Egerton  Egerton shown within Kent
Population	1,104
OS grid reference	TQ907474
Civil parish	Egerton
District	Ashford
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TONBRIDGE
Postcode district	TN27
Dialling code	01233
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Ashford
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Egerton is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is located on the Greensand Ridge 9 miles (14.4 km) north of Ashford. The parish is a scattered rural one; the settlement of Stonebridge Green, adjacent to Egerton, is also in the parish.

The 13th century parish church is dedicated to Saint James. Other facilities in the village include the George pub, the Millennium Hall, the village stores, a games barn, cricket and football pitches, an internet cafe and a primary school. The old bakers in Egerton, Buckle's, was featured on the 1990s television programme The Darling Buds of May.

Egerton also contains many listed properties such as Egerton House, St. James Church and a Tumulus.

External links

Media related to Egerton, Kent at Wikimedia Commons

• Egerton parish website including map and history
• Badger Bushcraft - for bushcraft, survival, primitive technology and nature based learnign events, Egerton, Kent
• The Green Wicket Animal Sanctuary, a registered charity for the welfare of animals, operates by public referrals, rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing service in Kent
• Egerton Free Church - a local, village church that shares the key Christian understandings of faith and practice with other independent and denominational churches.