Kingsdown - Kent - Pictorial Village Signs on Waymarking.com

Village sign for the hamlet of Kingsdown, Swale, North Kent (Not to be confused with Kingsdown south of Deal, Kent). It is situated at the junction of Ludgate Lane and Kingsdown Road, Kingsdown.

The sign depicts the north downs in the background with a farm house and the Scuttington Manor Oast House. In the foreground cherries depicting the fruit orchards that used to be so abundant in this area of Kent, and some sheep.

"Kingsdown is a small hamlet surrounded by the villages of Frinsted, Milstead, Doddington and Lynsted in Kent, England.

The hamlet is within the civil parish of Milstead and Kingsdown. The area around the hamlet includes the Torry Hill estate.

The hamlet was described by John Marius Wilson in his 1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales as a settlement of no more than 18 houses incorporating a population of 96."

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Location: Junction of Ludgate Lane and Kingsdown Road, Kingsdown Plaque: no Construction Material: Metal Web Address: [Web Link] Sign Date: Not listed Occasion Commemorated: Not listed Artist: Not listed

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