Egerton, Kent

Egerton
Kent
Egerton village sign
Location
Grid reference:	TQ9147
Location:	51°11’38"N, 0°43’48"E
Data
Population:	1,073  (2011)
Post town:	Ashford
Postcode:	TN27
Dialling code:	01233
Local Government
Council:	Ashford
Parliamentary constituency:	Ashford

Egerton is a village in Kent, on the Greensand Ridge nine miles north of Ashford, its parish stretching south into a lower plain towards the West Stour. The parish is a relatively scattered rural one; the settlement of Stonebridge Green, adjacent to Egerton village centre, is also in the parish.

Geography

A narrow escarpment of dense Greensand forms the north of the parish where the largest single residential area is. The northern slopes of this are two named woods. Most of the slopes and plain below to the south is used for mixed farming and hedgerows, with a lower proportion of woodland and wider buffer areas between settled farmstead clusters of homes.

About the village

A large pub, The George is joined by the Millennium Hall, the village stores, a games barn, cricket and football pitches, an internet café and a primary school, which has a minimum weekly event and funding from the Church of England.

Egerton has a fair proportion of listed properties, which include Egerton House and a Saxon Burial mound.

Churches

The 13th-century parish church is St James. It is a Grade I listed building.

The village also has an independent church, Egerton Free Church.

In film, the media and literature

Its bakery was featured on the 1990s television programme The Darling Buds of May.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Egerton, Kent)

• Egerton Parish
• Egerton Free Church