Faversham Without is a former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

, now in the parishes of Graveney with Goodnestone and Boughton under Blean, in the Swale district, in the county of

Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

, in southeast

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. It was founded in 1894 from the

rural In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically desc ...

part of

Faversham Faversham () is a market town in Kent, England, from Sittingbourne, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2 road (Great ...

parish, over the next 70 years was reduced in size as the borough of

expanded and other areas were transferred to Graveney, Luddenham, Oare and

Sheldwich Sheldwich is a village and civil parish in the far south of the Borough of Swale in Kent, England. Geography Sheldwich is a rural parish situated south of the market town of Faversham, north of Ashford and 12 miles west of Canterbury via the ...

. In 1961 it existed as a series of exclaves. It was abolished on 1 April 1983 when the parish of "Graveney with Goodnestone" was formed part also went to Boughton under Blean. In 1971 the parish had a population of 111.

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Former civil parishes in Kent {{Kent-geo-stub