Leeds, Kent

For the city in West Yorkshire, see Leeds.

Leeds
Leeds
Leeds Leeds shown within Kent
Population	2,500 (2005)^[1] 790 (2011. Including Ashbank and Bexon)^[2]
District	Maidstone (borough)
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Maidstone
Postcode district	ME17
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

Coordinates: 51°14′47″N 0°36′24″E / 51.246310°N 0.606630°E / 51.246310; 0.606630Leeds is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. The parish is located to the east of Maidstone.

The village of Leeds is five miles (8 km) from the county town. It appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086 called Esledes - an old English word meaning slope or hillside. It is so called because the village is on the hillside above the River Len, a tributary of the River Medway. An alternative explanation for the name is that it derived its name from Ledian, who built the first wooden fortress here in 978.^[3]^[4] It also has a primary school, Leeds and Broomfield C of E Primary.^[5]

St Nicholas's Church has the second largest Norman tower in England. Leeds Priory was dissolved in 1539. To the east of the village is Leeds Castle. The church and the castle are Grade I listed buildings and the site of the priory is a scheduled monument.

To the west and between Otham and Leeds the area of Caring is located. Caring has a number of modern farmhouses, in the style of an Oast house. Another attraction is the old Vineyard, a free tourist feature.

References

↑ "2005 Ward Level Population Estimates" (PDF). Kent County Council. September 2006. Retrieved 2007-08-20.
↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
↑ From: 'Leck - Leeds', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 46-55. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51100 Date accessed: 17 May 2009.
↑ http://www.britishcastle.co.uk/index.php?pageId=England_Kent
↑ http://www.leeds-broomfield.kent.sch.uk/page/?title=Home&pid=1

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Locations in the parish of Leeds	Ashbank

Buildings	Abbey Mill Brandescombe Mill Church Leeds Castle Leeds Castle Mill Le Nethertoune Mill Old Mill Priory Priory Mill

People	Anthony St Leger Bartholomew de Badlesmere George Oxenden Richard Meredith Roger de Leybourne Roger Meredith Thomas Fairfax Olive Baillie Warham St Leger

Italics denotes building in Broomfield and Kingswood civil parish.

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 Sutton Fairbourne Heath Frinsted Grove Green Harrietsham Hawkenbury Headcorn Hollingbourne Horden Hucking Hunton Kingswood Laddingford Langley Leeds Lenham Lidsing Linton Loose Lordswood Maidstone Marden Marley Milebush Nettlestead Nettlestead Green Otham Otterden Park Wood Penenden Heath Pollhill Ringlestone (hamlet) Ringlestone (suburb) Sandling Sandway Shepway Staplehurst Stockbury Sutton Valence Teston Thurnham Tovil Ulcombe Walderslade Weavering West Farleigh Wichling Wormshill Yalding

List of places in Kent

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