Wrotham
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Wrotham ( ) is a village on the Pilgrims' Way in Kent, England, at the foot of the North Downs. It is north of Borough Green and approximately east of Sevenoaks. It is between the M20 and M26 motorways.
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Place details
- Locality
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,921
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Wrotham3602.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- High Street, Wrotham, showingSt George’s Church at right
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Wrotham
- UK place.population
- 1,815
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001) 1,921 (2011)
- UK place.shire_district
- Tonbridge and Malling
- UK place.shire_county
- Kent
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Tonbridge
- UK place.post_town
- SEVENOAKS
- UK place.postcode_district
- TN15
- UK place.postcode_area
- TN
- UK place.dial_code
- 01732
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TQ610591
- UK place.website
- Wrotham Parish Council
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- market town
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Population
- 1921
- Image
- Wrotham3602.JPG
- Dialing code
- 01732
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- Commons category
- Wrotham
- OS grid reference
- TQ610591
- postal code
- TN15
- P8168
- Yamato
- P12749
- Paul van Dyk
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Hundred of Wrotham
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Demography
- Economy
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Wrotham ( ) is a village on the Pilgrims' Way in Kent, England, at the foot of the North Downs. It is north of Borough Green and approximately east of Sevenoaks. It is between the M20 and M26 motorways.
==History== The name first occurs as Uurotaham in the year 788, meaning 'homestead of a man called Wrōta'. The offshoot village on Wrotham Heath at the heart of the heath of the same name, once an area of wholly common land, is to the south-east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wrotham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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