Smeeth

Village in Kent, England

Not to be confused with low-lying fields in Suffolk in Lakenheath of the same name.

Human settlement in England

Smeeth
St Mary the Virgin's Church
Smeeth is located in Kent Smeeth Smeeth Location within Kent
Area	8.29 km² (3.20 sq mi)
Population	924 (Civil Parish 2011)^[1]
• Density	111/km² (290/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TR072397
Civil parish	Smeeth
District	Ashford
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ASHFORD
Postcode district	TN25
Dialling code	01303

Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Ashford
List of places UK England Kent 51°07′08′′N 0°57′42′′E / 51.1189°N 0.9616°E / 51.1189; 0.9616

Smeeth is a mostly agricultural land use village and civil parish, centred 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Ashford in the Ashford Borough of Kent, England.

Geography

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Smeeth is a small village in population near Mersham Hatch Park on the A20 road from Ashford to Folkestone.

The church of St Mary the Virgin contains some Norman work such as the south doorway, tower archways and chancel.^[2] Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne is buried in the churchyard.

Three east-west routes pass quite near to the middle of the parish and are aligned east-west: the M20 motorway, the A20 single carriageway road and the High Speed 1 railway line connecting to the Channel Tunnel. Most of the development is residential and all of the neighbourhoods are north of the motorway. The parish has many headwaters to the East Stour which bounds Smeeth to its south. The far northern borders are contiguous with Brabourne Lees and link into its main 'village street' directly; this is also where most of the buffer land is woodland it also had a railway owend by SER