Saltwood

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Saltwood is a large village in south east Kent, England. It is home to a Country Park (Brockhill Country Park), a large primary school, a major secondary high school (Brockhill Park Performing Arts College), a Norman church (of St Peter & St Paul) and Saltwood Castle, once a possession of the Archbishops of Canterbury, and more recently home to Lord Clark of Saltwood and then his son Alan Clark MP. It is located about a mile to the north of the cinque port of Hythe, although the parish boundaries of Saltwood come very much closer to Hythe town centre.

Saltwood has two satellite hamlet communities, one is Pedlinge which has a handful of houses and a small Anglican Chapel and the other is Sandling which also has a tiny collection of homes, Sandling railway station, and the house and estate of Sandling Park. The railway station serves the village of Saltwood, to which it is linked by a regular bus service.

The residents of Sandling Park and their estate employees traditionally worship at Pedlinge chapel, which is served by the parish priest (rector) of Saltwood.

Saltwood also has a Cricket team that play in the Kent Village League's Second Division.

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