Sheldwich

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Sheldwich
Sheldwich shown within Kent
District	Swale
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Faversham
Dialling code	01795
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
European Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • Kent

Coordinates: 51°16′N 0°53′E / 51.27, 0.88

Sheldwich is a village in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England. It is situated 3 miles south of the market town of Faversham, and 10 miles north of Ashford. It is fragmented into four, with North Street a distinct settlement bordering the A251, Sheldwich (including the Church and school) scattered further south on or close to the main road, Sheldwich Lees, a small village in its own right lying a third of a mile from the junction of Lees Court Road and the Ashford Road (A251}, and the hamlet of Gosmere. Other than North Street and part of Gosmere, Sheldwich and Sheldwich Lees are included in the Kent Downs, (the eastern part of the North Downs), a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The village church, parts of which are eleventh century, is dedicated to St. James. It was extended and extensively restored in 1888. Because of the small scattered population (approximately 500 according to the 2001 census) the civil parish is now merged with those of the smaller neighbouring settlements of Badlesmere and Leaveland.

v • d • e Towns and villages in the Swale district of Kent, England

Bapchild • Badlesmere • Bay View • Bobbing • Borden • Boughton Street • Boughton under Blean • Bredgar • Brogdale • Buckland • Chestnut Street • Conyer • Dargate • Davington • Denstroude • Doddington • Dunkirk • Eastchurch • Eastling • Elmley • Faversham • Faversham Without • Goodnestone • Graveney • Halfway Houses • Hartlip • Harty • Heart's Delight, Swale • Hernhill • Highsted • Iwade • Kemsley • Keycol • Kingsdown • Leaveland • Leysdown-on-Sea • Lower Halstow • Luddenham • Lynsted • Milstead • Milton Regis • Minster • Minster-on-Sea • Mockbeggar • Murston • Newington • Newnham • Norton • Oad Street • Oare • Ospringe • Oversland • Painters Forstal • Queenborough • Rodmersham Green • Rushenden • Selling • Sheldwich • Sheerness • Sittingbourne • Stalisfield Green • Teynham • Throwley • Tonge • Tunstall • Upchurch • Uplees • Warden • Waterham • Whitehill

List of places in Kent