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Village and civil parish in Kent, England Not to be confused with the city in West Yorkshire, Leeds.

Human settlement in England

Leeds
Leeds
LeedsLocation within Kent
Population	2,394 (Ward, 2011) 790 (Parish, 2011)
District	Maidstone
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Maidstone
Postcode district	ME17

Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast

UK Parliament	Faversham and Mid Kent
List of places UK England Kent 51°14′47″N 0°36′24″E / 51.246310°N 0.606630°E / 51.246310; 0.606630

Leeds is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent, England.

Location

The village is located five miles (8.0 km) to the east of Maidstone, the county town of Kent.

Etymology

It appeared in the Domesday Book as Esledes, possibly referring to a stream name. It is so called because the village is on the hillside above the River Len, a tributary of the River Medway. An alternative explanation for the name is that it derived its name from Ledian, who built the first wooden fortress here in 978.

Notable features

St Nicholas's Church has the second largest Norman tower in England. Leeds Priory was dissolved in 1539. To the east of the village is Leeds Castle. The church and the castle are Grade I listed buildings and the site of the priory is a scheduled monument.

To the west and between Otham and Leeds the area of Caring is located. Caring has a number of modern farmhouses, in the style of an Oast house. Another attraction is the old Vineyard, a free tourist feature.

It also has a primary school, Leeds and Broomfield Church of England Primary.

References

UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Leeds Ward (as of 2011) (E05004997)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Leeds Parish (E04004962)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. Translated by Williams, Ann; Martin, G. H. London: Penguin Books. 2003. p. 19. ISBN 0-14-051535-6. OCLC 54415956.
Mills, Anthony (2011). A Dictionary of British Place-names. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9. OCLC 59290127.
From: 'Leck - Leeds', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 46-55. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51100 Date accessed: 17 May 2009.
"britishcastle.co.uk". www.britishcastle.co.uk.
"Leeds and Broomfield C of e Primary School - Home". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2015.

External links

v t e Leeds in Kent
Locations in the parish of Leeds	Ashbank
Buildings	Abbey Mill Brandescombe Mill Church Leeds Castle Leeds Castle Mill Le Nethertoune Mill Old Mill Priory Priory Mill
People	Anthony St Leger Bartholomew de Badlesmere George Oxenden Richard Meredith Roger de Leybourne Roger Meredith Thomas Fairfax Olive Baillie Warham St Leger
Italics denotes building in Broomfield and Kingswood civil parish.

v t e 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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Towns and villages in the Maidstone borough of Kent, England

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