Teston
Sign in to saveTeston or is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. It is located on the A26 road out of Maidstone, four miles (6.4 km) from Maidstone town centre. There is a narrow stone bridge over the River Medway here.
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Place details
- Locality
- Maidstone
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Teston
- UK place.static_image_name
- KentTestonBridge0628c.JPG
- UK place.static_image_width
- 250
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Teston Bridge
- UK place.population
- 637
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.shire_district
- Maidstone
- UK place.shire_county
- Kent
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Maidstone and Malling
- UK place.post_town
- Maidstone
- UK place.postcode_district
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Maidstone
- Population
- +637
- Shares border with
- Barming
- Image
- KentTestonLock0618.JPG
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Teston or is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. It is located on the A26 road out of Maidstone, four miles (6.4 km) from Maidstone town centre. There is a narrow stone bridge over the River Medway here.
==History== Barham Court, a large country house, has now been converted into offices and apartments. It was once the home of Randall Fitz Urse, one of the knights who murdered Thomas Becket in 1170. It passed to the de Berham family now called the Barhams, and then the Boteler (or Butler) family. They were Royalists, William Butler was imprisoned for supporting the Kentish Royalist Petition 1642, which indirectly led to the Battle of Maidstone in 1648.