Eastling

Eastling
Eastling County Primary school. Standing on Kettle Hill Road on the southeastern edge of the village.
Eastling Eastling shown within Kent
Population	365 (2011 Census)^[1]
District	Swale
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Faversham
Postcode district	ME13 0
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
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Coordinates: 51°16′00″N 0°49′00″E / 51.266666°N 0.816667°E / 51.266666; 0.816667

Eastling is a small village 4½ miles to the southwest of Faversham, Kent in England. It is set in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the slope of the North Downs.

The village's Conservation Area boasts some excellent buildings and gardens, and the Eastling Manor House.

St Mary's Church

The village church of St Mary's is believed to have been built on the foundations of an earlier place of worship before the 11th century. The oldest surviving parts are the base of the southwest tower, the nave and the western part of the chancel. The chancel was extended eastwards in the 14th century to create a sanctuary. About the same time, the St Katherine Chapel and an arcade was added to the southeast corner.

The nave, north aisle and south arcade were substantially rebuilt by the architect R.C. Hussey in 1855-56; the west porch added and the nave re-roofed. St Mary's box pews, pulpit, lectern, rector's stall and choir stalls all date from that era.

Eastling school

Eastling County Primary School opened on Kettle Hill on 7 February 1881 with 80 children. The first head was Bessie Higham; since February 2002 it has been Dave Walsh. It replaced a schoolhouse built before 1842 in Newnham Lane and which doubled as a church hall.

Currently (January 2009) the school has a roll fluctuating around 100 pupils with spaces for 15 new pupils each year at ages 4 and 5.

Transport

A public bus service (the number 660) links the village to Faversham, every day except Sundays.

References

↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 September 2016.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eastling.

Eastling Village website

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

Unparished areas	Sheerness Sittingbourne

Civil parishes	Badlesmere Bapchild Bobbing Borden Boughton under Blean Bredgar Doddington Dunkirk Eastchurch Eastling Faversham Graveney with Goodnestone Hartlip Hernhill Iwade Leaveland Leysdown-on-Sea Lower Halstow Lynsted with Kingsdown Milstead Minster-on-sea Newington Newnham Norton, Buckland and Stone Oare Ospringe Queenborough Rodmersham Selling Sheldwich Stalisfield Teynham Throwley Tonge Tunstall Upchurch Warden

Other settlements	Bay View Brogdale Chestnut Street Conyer Danaway Dargate Davington Denstroude Elmley Faversham Without Halfway Houses Harty Heart's Delight, Swale Highsted Kemsley Keycol Luddenham Milton Regis Mockbeggar Murston Norton Oad Street Oversland Painters Forstal Rushenden Shellness Uplees Waterham Whitehill

List of places in Kent

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