West Farleigh

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West Farleigh

All Saints Church

West Farleigh

Location within Kent

OS grid reference| TQ715534
District|

* Maidstone

Shire county|

* Kent

Region|

* South East

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| Maidstone
Postcode district| ME15
Dialling code| 01622
Police| Kent
Fire| Kent
Ambulance| South East Coast
UK Parliament|

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England
Kent

51°15′01″N 0°27′14″E﻿ / ﻿51.2502°N 0.4540°E﻿ / 51.2502; 0.4540

West Farleigh is a village and civil parish four miles (6 km) southwest of Maidstone in the county of Kent. The parish has a population of approximately 450, and is bounded by the civil parishes of East Farleigh, Hunton, Yalding, and over the River Medway by Wateringbury, Teston and Barming. The village now has two pubs; The Tickled Trout and The Good Intent, its third pub The White House ceased trading in 2020. Adjacent to the church is the village cricket ground. The village is twinned with the northern German village of Ringstedt, near Bremerhaven.

The Sports Club[1] runs a football section involving; two senior Saturday sides, currently both play in the Sevenoaks and District Football League,[2] an occasional veterans' side, and several junior sides, with the younger age groups playing their home games at Elmscroft Park, Charlton Lane. An annual tour, once mainly between the club's footballers and that of Ringstedt (but now includes many from the wider community) has been an ongoing, ever-flourishing event since 1988. The cricket section of the sports club runs two senior teams on Saturdays, playing in the Kent County Village League.[3] The netball section plays in the Malling and Maidstone Netball League.[4] Notable players who have played for the club include; David Sadler (Manchester United), Mark Beeney (Leeds United) and Alessia Russo who began her club football in the U5's, U6's and U7's (Arsenal and England Lionesses).

The club also runs the village's Firework Display on each first Friday in November.[5]

The village produces its own monthly newsletter "Life-Line",[6] and an events' website "The Farleighs".[7]

The primary school, which had one classroom, closed in 1968. One of its two teachers at the time, was Miss Whittle, the daughter of Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the (turbo) jet engine. The village's post office and only stores closed in 1986.

The parish church of 'All Saints' dates back to the 11th century.[8][circular reference]

A more detailed early history of West Farleigh can be gained from the British History website.[9]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to West Farleigh.

1. ^ West Farleigh Sports Club
2. ^ Sevenoaks and District Football League
3. ^ "Kent County Village League".
4. ^ "MMNL".
5. ^ "West Farleigh Firework Display".
6. ^ Life-line
7. ^ The Farleighs
8. ^ All Saints Church, West Farleigh
9. ^ British-History

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Places adjacent to West Farleigh

| Teston | Ditton | East Barming

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Nettlestead |

West Farleigh

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Yalding | Collier Street | Coxheath

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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
* 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
* Yelsted

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