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Wormshill is a small village and civil parish within the Borough of Maidstone, Kent, England. It lies on a high point of the North Downs roughly 10 miles (16 km) south from The Swale and 11 miles (18 km) north from Maidstone. The villages of Frinsted and Bicknor are approximately 2 miles (3 km) equidistant to the east and west respectively and Hollingbourne, 4 miles (6 km) to the south.

The village has been an agricultural community recorded as far back as the Domesday Book although sources attribute Wormshill's name to the Norse god Woden, suggesting earlier pre-Norman settlement. Today it remains a rural village situated in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with a population of around 200.