Shepway, Maidstone

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For the local government district in south-east Kent near Folkestone, see Shepway.

Shepway
Shepway shown within Kent
Population	14,100 (2005)^[1]
District	Maidstone
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MAIDSTONE
Postcode district	ME
Dialling code	01622
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
European Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Faversham and Mid Kent
List of places: UK • England • Kent

Coordinates: 51°15′16″N 0°32′46″E / 51.25432, 0.54611Shepway is a suburb to the south-east of Maidstone in Kent, England. It lies to the south of Mote Park, to the east of Loose Road (A229) and Sutton Road (A274) and west of Willington Street. that was formerly farmland and orchards. The suburb takes its name from Shepway Court a country house located where the road of that name is today.^[2]

Construction of the suburb started in the 1930s with the building of South Park Road, the western ends of Plains Avenue and Marion Crescent and Cranborne Avenue (originally named Shepway Avenue) and parts of Brockenhurst, Ringwood and Lyndhurst Roads. The majority of the suburb was constructed as a council estate by Maidstone Borough Council in stages after World War II.^[3] Phases of infill construction continued up to the present. The original grid of roads laid out for the council estate after World War II bear names of traditional English counties (for example Northumberland Road, Cambridge Crescent, Hampshire Drive, Rutland Way and Nottingham Avenue). The estate was originally planed with large areas of open land for recreation, although later building has encroached on some of this space.

[edit] References

^ 2005 Ward Level Population Estimates. Kent County Council (September 2006). Retrieved on 2007-08-20.
^ Ordnance Survey map circa 1870
^ http://www.localhistories.org/maidstone.html Local Histories Later, Maidstone

v • d • e Towns and villages in the Maidstone borough of Kent, England

Allington • Barming • Bearsted • Bedmonton • Benover • Bexon • Bicknor • Boughton Green • Boughton Malherbe • Boughton Monchelsea • Boxley • Bredhurst • Broomfield • Caring • Chainhurst • Chart Sutton • Chegworth • Collier Street • Coxheath • Detling • Downswood • East Barming • East Farleigh • East Sutton • Fairbourne Heath • Frinsted • Grove Green • Harrietsham • Hawkenbury • Headcorn • Hollingbourne • Horden • Hucking • Hunton • Kingswood • Kit's Coty • Laddingford • Langley • Leeds • Lenham • Linton • Loose • Lordswood • Marden • Marley • Milebush • Nettlestead • Nettlestead Green • Otham • Otterden • Park Wood • Platts Heath • Penenden Heath • Pollhill • Ringlestone (hamlet) • Ringlestone (suburb) • Sandling • Sandway • Shepway • Sutton Valence • Staplehurst • Stockbury • Teston • Thurnham • Tovil • Ulcombe • Walderslade • Weavering • West Farleigh • Wormshill • Yalding

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