List of civil parishes in Kent

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Contents 1 Ashford 2 City of Canterbury 3 Dartford 4 Dover 5 Gravesham 6 Maidstone 7 Medway 8 Sevenoaks 9 Shepway 10 Swale 11 Thanet 12 Tonbridge and Malling 13 Tunbridge Wells 14 Notes

[edit] Ashford

Ashford itself is unparished.

Aldington [1] Appledore [3] Bethersden [2] Biddenden [3] Bilsington [1] Bonnington [1] Boughton Aluph and Eastwell (merger [1]) Brabourne [1] Brook [1] Challock [1]

Charing [2] Chilham [1] Crundale [1] Egerton [2] Godmersham [1] Great Chart with Singleton [2] (as "Great Chart") Hastingleigh [1] High Halden [3] Hothfield [2] Kenardington [3]

Kingsnorth [2] Little Chart [2] Mersham [1] Molash [1] Newenden [3] Orlestone [1] Pluckley [2] Rolvenden [3] Ruckinge [1] Sevington [1]

Shadoxhurst [2] Smarden [2] Smeeth [1] Stanhope Stone-cum-Ebony [3] Tenterden [†] Warehorne [1] Westwell [2] Wittersham [3] Woodchurch [3] Wye with Hinxhill (merger [1])

[edit] City of Canterbury

Herne Bay, Whitstable and the former county borough of Canterbury are unparished.

Adisham [4] Barham [4] Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne (merger [4]) Bishopsbourne [4] Bridge [4] Chartham [4] Chestfield (before 1974 in Whitstable UD) Chislet [4] Fordwich [4]

Hackington [4] Harbledown [4] Herne and Broomfield (1996, before 1974 in Herne Bay UD) Hoath [4] Ickham [4] Kingston [4] Littlebourne [4] Lower Hardres [4] Petham [4]

St. Cosmus and St. Damian in the Blean [4] Sturry [4] Swalecliffe [4] Thanington Without [4] Upper Hardres [4] Waltham [4] Westbere [4] Wickhambreaux [4] Womenswold[4]

[edit] Dartford

Dartford is unparished.

• Bean
• Darenth ^[5]
• Longfield and New Barn ^[5] (as "Longfield")
• Southfleet ^[5]
• Stone ^[5]
• Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley ^[5] (as "Sutton-at-Hone")
• Swanscombe and Greenhithe ^[†] (as "Swanscombe")
• Wilmington ^[5]

[edit] Dover

The district is now entirely parished. From 1974 the areas of Deal and Dover had been unparished areas with Charter Trustees - these were parished in 1996, with a parish for Walmer (annexed to Deal UD in 1935) also being established.

Alkham [6] Ash [7] Aylesham [7] Capel-le-Ferne [6] Deal (1996, Town) Dover (1996, Town) Denton with Wootton [6] Eastry [7] Eythorne [7]

Goodnestone [7] Great Mongeham [7] Guston [6] Hougham Without [6] Langdon [6] Lydden [6] Nonington [7] Northbourne [7] Preston [7]

Ringwould with Kingsdown [6] Ripple [7] River [6] St. Margaret's at Cliffe [6] Sandwich [†] (Town) Shepherdswell with Coldred [6] (merged from "Sibertswold" and Coldred) Sholden [7] Staple [7] Stourmouth [7]

Sutton-by-Dover [7] Temple Ewell [6] Tilmanstone [7] Walmer (1996) Whitfield [6] Wingham [7] Woodnesborough [7] Worth [7]

[edit] Gravesham

Gravesend is unparished.

• Cobham ^[8]
• Higham ^[8]
• Luddesdown ^[8]
• Meopham ^[8]
• Shorne ^[8]
• Vigo (2000)

[edit] Maidstone

Maidstone itself is unparished.

Barming [9] Bearsted [9] Bicknor [10] Boughton Malherbe [10] Boughton Monchelsea [9] Boxley [10] Bredhurst [10] Broomfield and Kingswood [10] (as "Broomfield") Chart Sutton [10] Collier Street (1999)

Coxheath [9] Detling [10] Downswood East Farleigh [9] East Sutton [10] Frinsted [10] Harrietsham [10] Headcorn [10] Hollingbourne [10] Hucking [10]

Hunton [9] Langley [10] Leeds [10] Lenham [10] Linton [9] Loose [9] Marden [9] Nettlestead [9] Otham [9] Otterden [10]

Staplehurst [9] Stockbury [10] Sutton Valence [10] Teston [9] Thurnham [10] Tovil Ulcombe [10] West Farleigh [9] Wichling [10] Wormshill [10] Yalding [9]

[edit] Medway

The former areas of Rochester, Gillingham and Chatham boroughs and urban districts are unparished.

• Allhallows ^[8]
• Cliffe and Cliffe Woods ^[8] (as "Cliffe")
• Cooling ^[8]
• Cuxton ^[8]
• Frindsbury Extra ^[8]
• Halling ^[8]
• High Halstow ^[8]
• Hoo St Werburgh ^[8]
• Isle of Grain ^[8]
• St Mary Hoo ^[8]
• Stoke ^[8]

[edit] Sevenoaks

Ash-cum-Ridley [5] Brasted [11] Chevening [11] Chiddingstone [11] Cowden [11] Crockenhill Dunton Green [11] Edenbridge [11]

Eynsford [5] Farningham [5] Fawkham [5] Halstead [11] Hartley [5] Hever [11] Horton Kirby and South Darenth [5] (as "Horton Kirby") Kemsing [11]

Knockholt [11] Leigh [11] Otford [11] Penshurst [11] Riverhead [11] Seal [11] Sevenoaks [†] Sevenoaks Weald [11]

Shoreham [11] Sundridge with Ide Hill [11] (as "Sundridge") Swanley [5] Westerham [11] West Kingsdown [5]

[edit] Shepway

Shepway is entirely parished.

Acrise Brenzett Brookland Burmarsh Dymchurch Elham Elmsted

Folkestone (2004) Hawkinge Hythe [†] Ivychurch Lydd [†] Lyminge Lympne

Monks Horton Newchurch Newington New Romney [†] Old Romney Paddlesworth Postling St. Mary in the Marsh

Saltwood Sandgate (2004) Sellindge Snargate Stanford Stelling Minnis Stowting Swingfield

[edit] Swale

Sittingbourne and Sheerness are unparished.

Badlesmere Bapchild Bobbing Borden Boughton under Blean Bredgar Cliffsend Doddington Dunkirk Eastchurch

Eastling Faversham [†] Graveney with Goodnestone Hartlip Hernhill Iwade Leaveland Leysdown Lower Halstow Luddenham

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

[edit] Thanet

Margate and Ramsgate are unparished.

• Acol ^[7]
• Birchington
• Broadstairs and St. Peters ^[†]
• Cliffsend (2003)
• Manston
• Minster ^[7]
• Monkton ^[7]
• St. Nicholas at Wade ^[7]
• Sarre ^[7]

[edit] Tonbridge and Malling

Tonbridge is unparished.

Addington [14] Aylesford [14] Birling [14] Borough Green [14] Burham [14] Ditton [14] East Malling and Larkfield [14]

East Peckham [14] Hadlow [15] Hildenborough [15] Ightham [14] Kings Hill (1999) Leybourne [14] Mereworth [14]

Offham [14] Platt [14] Plaxtol [14] Ryarsh [14] Shipbourne [14] Snodland [14]

Stansted [14] Trottiscliffe [14] Wateringbury [14] West Malling [14] West Peckham [14] Wouldham [14] Wrotham [14]

[edit] Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is unparished.

Benenden [16] Bidborough [15] Brenchley [15] Capel [15]

Cranbrook [16] Frittenden [16] Goudhurst [16] Hawkhurst [16]

Horsmonden [15] Lamberhurst [15] Paddock Wood [15] Pembury [15]

Sandhurst [16] Southborough [†] Speldhurst [15]

[edit] Notes

^†  successor parish to a urban district or municipal borough under the Local Government Act 1972

¹ previously part of East Ashford Rural District

² previously part of West Ashford Rural District

³ previously part of Tenterden Rural District

⁴ Bridge-Blean Rural District

⁵ Dartford Rural District

⁶ Dover Rural District

⁷ Eastry Rural District

⁸ Strood Rural District

⁹ Maidstone Rural District

¹⁰ Hollingbourne Rural District

¹¹  Sevenoaks Rural District

¹²  Elham Rural District

¹³  Romney Marsh Rural District

¹⁴  Malling Rural District

¹⁵  Tonbridge Rural District

¹⁶  Cranbrook Rural District