Bredgar

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Bredgar
Bredgar shown within Kent
District	Swale
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
European Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • Kent

Coordinates: 51°17′00″N 0°42′00″E / 51.299999, 0.7Bredgar is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England. The village lies some 4 miles (6.4km) to the southwest of Sittingbourne on a secondary road (B2163) between Tunstall and Hollingbourne. The hamlet of Bexon is included in the parish.

Bredgar is home to the privately owned Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway, a half-mile long, 2ft gauge, steam railway with a fine collection of locomotives and rolling stock, and extensive workshops. The B&W opens to the public occasionally during the summer months to raise money for charity,

The M2 motorway crosses the parish.

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Historical notes on Bredgar parish

v • d • e Towns and villages in the Swale district of Kent, England

Bapchild • Badlesmere • Bay View • Bobbing • Borden • Boughton Street • Boughton under Blean • Bredgar • Brogdale • Buckland • Chestnut Street • Conyer • Dargate • Davington • Denstroude • Doddington • Dunkirk • Eastchurch • Eastling • Elmley • Faversham • Faversham Without • Goodnestone • Graveney • Halfway Houses • Hartlip • Harty • Heart's Delight, Swale • Hernhill • Highsted • Iwade • Kemsley • Keycol • Kingsdown • Leaveland • Leysdown-on-Sea • Lower Halstow • Luddenham • Lynsted • Milstead • Milton Regis • Minster • Minster-on-Sea • Mockbeggar • Murston • Newington • Newnham • Norton • Oad Street • Oare • Ospringe • Oversland • Painters Forstal • Queenborough • Rodmersham Green • Rushenden • Selling • Sheldwich • Sheerness • Sittingbourne • Stalisfield Green • Teynham • Throwley • Tonge • Tunstall • Upchurch • Uplees • Warden • Waterham • Whitehill

List of places in Kent