Hersden

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Coordinates: 51°18′51″N 1°09′49″E / 51.3142°N 1.1637°E

Hersden
Village entrance
Hersden Hersden shown within Kent
Population	6,257 ^[1]
OS grid reference	TR204620
Civil parish	Sturry
District	City of Canterbury
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CANTERBURY
Postcode district	CT3
Dialling code	01227
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Canterbury
List of places UK England Kent

Hersden is a village near Canterbury in Kent, South East England.

The village lies on the A28 road, an old Roman road between the City of Canterbury and the Isle of Thanet, in the civil parish of Sturry, bordering the parish of Westbere.

The village is an erstwhile coal-mining village, and the Chislet Colliery Welfare Club is located here. The pit was opened in 1890, coal having been discovered during exploration work for a channel tunnel at Shakespeare Cliff in Dover. The village grew up in the early 1900s to provide housing for the mine workforce.

A cemetery of Frisians and Jutes who were brought over by the Romans to help fight the Picts was discovered in Hersden.

Now, there is a Chinese restaurant, the village hall which houses a social club and recently a large and impressive B.M.X track was built. There are two churches in Hersden; Hersden Church (a former Anglican and Methodist which now is used as a community centre - the congregation has moved to Sturry Church) and St Dunstan, the Roman Catholic Parish church which opened in 1935.

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References

↑ National Statistics Census 2001

v t e Towns and villages in the Canterbury district of Kent, England

	Adisham Barham Bekesbourne Beltinge Bishopsbourne Blean Boyden Gate Bramling Bridge Broad Oak Broomfield Chartham Chartham Hatch Chestfield Chislet Eddington Fordwich Grays Hackington Harbledown Hawthorn Herne Herne Bay Hersden Hillborough Hoath Ickham Kingston Littlebourne Lower Hardres Marshside Nackington Patrixbourne Petham Pett Bottom Reculver Rough Common Stuppington Sturry Swalecliffe Tankerton Thanington Without Tyler Hill Upper Harbledown Upper Hardres Upstreet Waltham Westbere Whitstable Wickhambreaux Wincheap Womenswold Woolage Green Woolage Village Yorkletts

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