Borough Green
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| OS grid reference: | TQ605575 |
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| District: | Tonbridge & Malling |
| Shire county: | Kent |
| Region: | South East England |
| Constituent country: | England |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom |
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| Ceremonial county: | Kent |
| Historic county: | Kent |
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| Ambulance: | South East Coast |
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| Post town: | SEVENOAKS |
| Postal district: | TN15 |
| Dialling code: | 01732 88 |
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| European Parliament: | South East England |
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Borough Green is a large village and civil parish in the Tonbridge and Malling District of Kent, England. The main village is situated on the A25 road between Maidstone and Sevenoaks in Kent.
The name describes what it originally was - the green to which the people of the then borough of Wrotham went for recreation. Its location at a crossroads (the old route from Gravesend to Hastings crossed here) meant that inns were gradually opened:
- 1586 Red Lion
- 1592 Black Horse
- 1753 The Bull
- 1837 Fox & Hounds (now a private house)
The London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened its line to Maidstone on 1 June 1874, and the station of Wrotham and Borough Green was built. Later the names were reversed to Borough Green & Wrotham reflecting the fact that the station was in Borough Green; Wrotham is some miles to the north: it also high;ights the fact of the reversal in village size.
Great Comp, an early 17th century house, is located in the parish of St Mary's Platt, one mile to the east of the village. Its gardens, administered by a charitable trust, are open to the public.
[edit] Reference
The Kent Village Book, Alan Bignell (Countryside Books, 1986).
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Addington • Aylesford • Beltring • Birling • Blue Bell Hill • Borough Green • Burham • Ditton • East Malling • East Malling and Larkfield • East Peckham • Eccles • Golden Green • Hadlow • Hildenborough • Ightham • Kings Hill • Larkfield • Lenham• Leybourne • Mereworth • Offham • Platt • Plaxtol • Ryarsh • Shipbourne • Snodland • Stansted • Tonbridge • Trottiscliffe • Walderslade • Wateringbury • West Malling • West Peckham • Wrotham • Wrotham Heath |
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| The borough of Tonbridge and Malling List of places in Kent |
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