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Molash

Coordinates: 51°13′36″N 0°54′04″E / 51.2266°N 0.9012°E / 51.2266; 0.9012
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Molash
Village hall
Molash is located in Kent
Molash
Molash
Location within Kent
Area6.38 km2 (2.46 sq mi)
Population246 (Civil Parish 2011)[1]
• Density39/km2 (100/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTR025515
Civil parish
  • Molash
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCanterbury
Postcode districtCT4
Dialling code01233
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
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51°13′36″N 0°54′04″E / 51.2266°N 0.9012°E / 51.2266; 0.9012

Molash is a civil parish and village in Kent, South East England. It contains a small part of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) - the North Downs - and is on the A252 road between Canterbury, Ashford and Faversham. Each of these is centred 7 miles (11 km) away.

Geography

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Molash is a scattered semi-rural community buffered and characterised by its own farmland and a borderland forest called King's Wood almost all part of the higher, more wooded village, Godmersham, which was historically a royal hunting forest. The hunt was for deer, and a large herd of Fallow Deer still run free in the wood. The far south is well-marked and maintained as the Pilgrims' Way and North Downs Way pass through the forest as they follow the ridge of the North Downs.

Amenities

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In the village, St. Peter's Church, built in the 13th century, with a Norman font and mostly 14th-century stained glass windows, was probably built on the site of an earlier church. The Yew trees in the churchyard are 2,000 years old.[2]

Transport

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The village is centred on the North Downs - on the A252 road between Canterbury, Ashford and Faversham (which is on the coast), each 8 miles (13 km) away.[3]

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Author Russell Hoban repurposes Molash as "Moal Arse" in his 1980, post apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 10 May 2014
  2. ^ Ashford Borough Council
  3. ^ Kent County Council
  4. ^ "Places - Riddley Walker Annotations". Errorbar. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
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