Kingswood, Kent

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Coordinates: 51°13′31″N 0°38′08″E / 51.225286°N 0.635555°E

Kingswood
Kingswood Kingswood shown within Kent
OS grid reference	TQ 837513
District	Maidstone
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MAIDSTONE
Postcode district	ME17
Dialling code	01622
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Faversham and Mid Kent
List of places UK England Kent

Kingswood is a village in the Maidstone District of Kent, England and forms part of the civil parish of Broomfield and Kingswood. The main village was constructed in the early 1960s with earlier sporadic development in both Pitt and Gravelly Bottom Roads during the 1920 and 1930's. Kingswood is situated to the south of the more ancient village of Broomfield. The village has a single village shop come post office and no public house. An annual senior citizen outing is arranged by the parish council and paid for from the village precept. The woods surrounding the village has three large craters often mistakenly attributed to World War II bombs, the origin of the craters is unknown.

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v t e Broomfield and Kingswood

Locations in the parish of Broomfield and Kingswood	Broomfield Kingswood

Buildings	Broomfield Church Keepers Cottage Mill Leeds Castle Leeds Castle Mill Le Mille The Mille

Twin towns	Broomfield

Italics denotes building partly in Broomfield with Kingswood parish

v t 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 Maidstone Marden Marley Milebush Nettlestead Nettlestead Green Otham Otterden Park Wood Platt's Heath Penenden Heath Pollhill Ringlestone (hamlet) Ringlestone (suburb) Sandling Sandway Shepway Sutton Valence Staplehurst Stockbury Teston Thurnham Tovil Ulcombe Walderslade Weavering West Farleigh Wichling Wormshill Yalding

List of places in Kent

51°13′39″N 0°37′56″E / 51.22747°N 0.63223°E / 51.22747; 0.63223

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