Sevington

This article is about the village in Kent. For the hamlet in Wiltshire, see Grittleton.

Sevington
Sevington Sevington shown within Kent
Area	0.76 km² (0.29 sq mi)
Population	310 (Civil Parish 2011)^[1]
– density	408/km² (1,060/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TR0340
Civil parish	Sevington
District	Ashford
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Ashford
Postcode district	TN24
Dialling code	01233
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Ashford
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Coordinates: 51°07′41″N 0°54′29″E / 51.128°N 0.908°E / 51.128; 0.908

Sevington is a contiguous suburb of Ashford, Kent in England. It is mostly business/market use and was once a very small rural village so keeps a community civil parish council for its few suburban streets.

Geography and economy

Much of Sevington's small tract of land is covered by Ashford business park areas which are connected with Ashford by post town status and by its road network - linking them closely with Ashford.

At the start of the 21st century many changes took place in Sevington due to the building of the Orbital Business Park including the Ashford livestock market.

The village/suburb of Willesborough bounds Sevington (along its long north-west border), the new Finberry neighbourhood is to the south in Mersham but with its own amenities. High Speed 1, adjoining the ordinary railway, passes through the parish.

History

The geographically small village is recorded in the Domesday Book and St Mary's Church, a Norman church was altered about 1200 and in the 14th century, it is cut off from the village by the building of the Southern Orbital road.^[2] It had a population of about 113 in 1872.^[3]

Sevington on the Southeastern Main Line.

References

↑ Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 10 May 2014
↑ KentParishes.gov.uk
↑ Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales john Marius Wilson (1872).

External links

Media related to Sevington at Wikimedia Commons

Statistical civil parish overview - map

Towns and villages in the Borough of Ashford, Kent, England

Aldington Aldington Frith Anvil Green Appledore Appledore Heath Ashford Bagham Bethersden Biddenden Bilsington Bilting Bockhanger Bodsham Bonnington Boughton Aluph Boughton Corner Boughton Lees Brabourne Brabourne Lees Brattle Bromley Green Brook Challock Charing Chilham Chilmington Green Crundale Eastwell Ebony Egerton Godinton Godmersham Great Chart Hamstreet Hastingleigh High Halden Hothfield Kenardington Kennington Kingsnorth Leigh Green Little Chart Mersham Molash Newenden Newtown Orlestone Pluckley Reading Street Rolvenden Rolvenden Layne Ruckinge St Michaels Sevington Shadoxhurst Small Hythe Smarden Smeeth Stanhope Stone in Oxney Stubbs Cross Tenterden Warehorne Westwell Westwell Leacon Willesborough Wittersham Woodchurch Woolpack Corner Wye

List of places in Kent

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