Hastingleigh

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Hastingleigh
Hastingleigh (Kent)
Hastingleigh

Hastingleigh shown within Kent
Population 247[1]
OS grid reference TR097449
Parish Hastingleigh
District Ashford
Shire county Kent
Region South East
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town TONBRIDGE
Postcode district TN25
Dialling code 01233
Police Kent
Fire Kent
Ambulance South East Coast
European Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Ashford
List of places: UK • England • Kent

Coordinates: 51°09′53″N 1°00′01″E / 51.1647, 1.0003

The small civil parish of Hastingleigh lies on top of the North Downs in Kent three miles east of Wye and ten miles south of Canterbury, near the locally renowned beauty spot of the Devil's Kneading Trough, on the North Downs Way with views towards Ashford, Romney Marsh and the Weald.

Hastingleigh has a current population of about 200 serviced by a garage and a public house. Hastingleigh, also one of the very few small villages to have not received a broadband service until late 2006. It held the number one position in BT requests for Broadband chart for some six months prior to conversion.

With little to no public transport to the village, the village is reached by following the main route (Chruchfield Way) through the village of Wye, passing Wye Church on theleft, and continuing out of the village, up onto the Downs, and continuing for several miles.

The village was in existence prior to the Domesday Book and originally lay in the valley by the Church of England church (St. Mary the Virgin) but following the plague, the main settlement was relocated to its current position. The church is made of stone, in the Early English style, and has a tower containing one bell: there is a brass to John Hawke, 1604, and Anna his wife, 1596: the nave and aisle were restored in 1880 and the chancel in 1886: the church affords 200 sittings.

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  1. ^ Ashford Borough Council Census 2001
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