Shepway, Maidstone

For the local government district in south-east Kent near Folkestone, see Shepway.
Shepway
Shepway
 Shepway shown within Kent
Population 14,100 (2005)[1]
DistrictMaidstone
Shire countyKent
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town MAIDSTONE
Postcode district ME
Dialling code 01622
Police Kent
Fire Kent
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentFaversham and Mid Kent
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Coordinates: 51°15′16″N 0°32′46″E / 51.254320°N 0.546110°E / 51.254320; 0.546110Shepway is a suburb to the south-east of Maidstone in Kent, England. It lies to the south of Mote Park, to the east of Loose Road (A229) and Sutton Road (A274) and west of Willington Street. The land was formerly farmland and orchards. The suburb takes its name from Shepway Court a country house located where the road of that name is today.[2]

Construction of the suburb started in the 1930s with the building of South Park Road, the western ends of Plains Avenue and Marion Crescent and Cranborne Avenue (originally named Shepway Avenue) and parts of Brockenhurst, Ringwood and Lyndhurst Roads. The majority of the suburb was constructed as a council estate by Maidstone Borough Council in stages after World War II.[3] Phases of infill construction continued up to the present. The original grid of roads laid out for the council estate after World War II bear names of traditional English counties (for example Northumberland Road, Cambridge Crescent, Hampshire Drive, Rutland Way and Nottingham Avenue). The estate was originally planned with large areas of open land for recreation, although later building has encroached on some of this space.

During the 1950s and 1960s the lead partner at the estate's medical centre was Dr Alan Barnsley, better known as the award winning novelist and poet Gabriel Fielding.

References

  1. ↑ "2005 Ward Level Population Estimates" (PDF). Kent County Council. September 2006. Retrieved 2007-08-20.
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey map circa 1870
  3. ↑ http://www.localhistories.org/maidstone.html Local Histories Later, Maidstone

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