Hawkinge
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Hawkinge ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. The original village of Hawkinge is actually just less than a mile (c. 1.3 km) due east of the present village centre; the village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill.
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Vinony's link graph records 196 inbound references to Hawkinge, and connects out to Lydd, Folkestone and Hythe and Saltwood.
It is catalogued under topics including Civil parishes in Kent, Folkestone and Hythe District and Towns in Kent.
Vinony links it to 15 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 8,002
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Kent Battle of Britain Museum in Hawkinge.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Kent Battle of Britain Museum in Hawkinge
- UK place.official_name
- Hawkinge
- UK place.population
- 8,497
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.shire_district
- Folkestone and Hythe
- UK place.shire_county
- Kent
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Ashford
- UK place.post_town
- FOLKESTONE
- UK place.postcode_district
- CT18
- UK place.postcode_area
- CT
- UK place.dial_code
- 01303
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Population
- 8002
- Image
- Kent Battle of Britain Museum in Hawkinge.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01303
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- Hawkinge
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- World War II
- Governance
- Transport
- Amenities
- References
- External links
Hawkinge ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. The original village of Hawkinge is actually just less than a mile (c. 1.3 km) due east of the present village centre; the village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill.
The name Hawkinge derives from the Old English hafocing meaning 'hawk place' or perhaps 'Hafoc's place'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hawkinge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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