Kings Hill

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See also: Kings Hill, Rutland
Kings Hill
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Statistics
Population: c. 5000 and growing
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference: TQ591468
Administration
District: Tonbridge & Malling
Shire county: Kent
Region: South East England
Constituent country: England
Sovereign state: United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county: Kent
Historic county: Kent
Services
Police force: Kent Police
Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}}
Ambulance: South East Coast
Post office and telephone
Post town: WEST MALLING
Postal district: ME19
Dialling code: 01732
Politics
UK Parliament: Tonbridge and Malling
European Parliament: South East England

Kings Hill is a civil parish and one of several new villages built in the Borough of Tonbridge and Malling, Kent since the 1950s (cp Vigo and New Ash Green). Development started in 1989 near West Malling, on land previously occupied by the Ministry of Defence as the airfield RAF West Malling. The plan is for a multi-purpose site of both residential and office/business space. The ultimate aim is to have some 2500 homes and 1 million square feet (93,000 m²) of commercial properties.

Kings Hill has recently become a popular choice for buying a new home, and the parish now has a frequent bus service to and from West Malling, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells. The nearest station is located in West Malling. Kings Hill has also become home to several council offices and company headquarters. Kings Hill has, amongst other points of interest, one superstore, ASDA, a public house named "The Spitfire", two primary schools, smaller shops, doctor's surgery, vets, optician, chemists, restaurants, cafés and bars.

The 2004 Wealth of the Nation report listed the Kings Hill postcode sector (ME19 4), as having the highest average income and the highest proportion of households earning greater than £100,000 per annum in Great Britain. Although Kings Hill remains conspicuously wealthy it does not appear in the 2006 report.

In common with many newer villages and developments Kings Hill currently lacks a dedicated church and does not constitute an ecclesiastical parish, instead falling predominantly within the parishes of Mereworth and West Malling. In 2003 the Diocese of Rochester of the Church of England appointed the first full-time resident minister to meet the pastoral needs of the growing business and residential community.

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The local government district of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, South East England
with its suburbs, villages, towns and parishes:

AddingtonAylesford • Beltring • BirlingBlue Bell HillBorough GreenBurhamDittonEast MallingEast Malling and LarkfieldEast PeckhamEcclesGolden GreenHadlowHildenboroughIghthamKings HillLarkfieldLenhamLeybourne • Mereworth • Offham • Platt • Plaxtol • Ryarsh • ShipbourneSnodlandStanstedTonbridgeTrottiscliffeWalderslade • Wateringbury • West Malling • West Peckham • WrothamWrotham Heath

The borough of Tonbridge and Malling
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