Coordinates: 51°06′12″N 0°42′49″E / 51.1034°N 0.7135°E / 51.1034; 0.7135

High Halden
High Halden  High Halden shown within Kent
Population	1,463 [1]
OS grid reference	TQ899373
Parish	High Halden
District	Ashford
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TONBRIDGE
Postcode district	TN26
Dialling code	01233
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Ashford
List of places: UK • England • Kent

High Halden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is located on the A28 road between Ashford town and Tenterden, 3miles (5km) north of the latter.

[edit] History

Fifty tons of oak was used to build the unusual tower and spire of the 10th–14th-century church, St Mary the Virgin, in 1470-1490. The church was restored in 1835 through funds donated by Mrs. Amy Kynaston Sutton, widow of the former vicar Evelyn Levett Sutton. ^[2]The public house The Chequers Inn, circa 1620, is known to have been used by smugglers and the various gangs such as the "Hawkhurst" and "Cranbrook" gangs that were active in the mid-18th century. The parish is recorded in the Domesday Book and parts of a Norman manor house can be seen at Tiffenden Farm.^[3]

[edit] External links

• St Mary's church
• Friends of the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
• High Halden Village

[edit] References

1. ^ Ashford Borough Council Census 2001
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ Ashford Borough Council

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