Highsted is a village near
Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is an industrial town in the Swale district of Kent, southeast England, from Canterbury and from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons.
The town stands next to th ...
in
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 ...
, England. It is in the
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 ...
of
Rodmersham
Rodmersham is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swale in the north of the English county of Kent. It is just under south of Bapchild on the A2 road and south-east of the town of Sittingbourne. Rodmersham Green, which forms the bulk ...
.
Most of the village is on Highsted Valley road leading northwards towards Cromer's Wood.
The rest of the village is on Stockers Hill leading eastwards to
Rodmersham Green.
According to
Edward Hasted
Edward Hasted (20 December 1732 OS (31 December 1732 NS) – 14 January 1812) was an English antiquarian and pioneering historian of his ancestral home county of Kent. As such, he was the author of a major county history, ''The History and ...
, in 1798, the estate of 'Hysted Forstall' with 'Chilston' and 'Fulston' were on the boundary of the Parish of Sittingbourne. Latterly, the manors of Chilston and Fulston have been absorbed into the outer suburbs of Sittingbourne in post-1940s house building.
Highsted contains three listed buildings, 'Highsted Farmhouse',(
Grade II listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...
), 'Stanley Villas'(also Grade II listed) and 'Old Cottage' (also Grade II listed)
On the Broadoak Road (between
Tunstall and
Milstead
Milstead is a village and civil parish in the borough of Swale in Kent, England. It is surrounded by the villages of Frinsted, Wichling, Doddington and Lynsted in Kent, England. It is the southernmost parish in the Sittingbourne area, and i ...
), is the Kent Science Park.
Woodstock Sports F.C.
Woodstock Sports Football Club was an English football team based near Sittingbourne, Kent. The club was founded in 1961 as Teynham and Lynsted and following an amalgamation in 1998 were renamed Norton Sports. In 2011 shortly after relocating to ...
'The TClarke Stadium' is on the Broadoak Road as well.
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Villages in Kent
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