Boughton Lees is a village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Boughton Aluph Boughton Aluph (pronounced ''Bawton Alluf'') is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England, and is about 5 miles (8 km) north of Ashford on the A251 road. There are two villages within the parish: Boughton Aluph its ...

, Ashford District,

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, England. It stands on the main

Ashford Ashford may refer to: Places Australia *Ashford, New South Wales *Ashford, South Australia *Electoral district of Ashford, South Australia Ireland *Ashford, County Wicklow *Ashford Castle, County Galway United Kingdom * Ashford, Kent, a town ** ...

Faversham Faversham is a market town in Kent, England, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2, which follows an ancient British t ...

road, some 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Ashford. The village church is Saint Christopher's Church, while the nearby All Saints’ Church, Boughton Aluph is the venue for the '' Stour Music Festival''.Stour Music http://www.stourmusic.org.uk/

Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

has been played on the village green, The Lees, for over 200 years. The Eastwell Manor, a country-house hotel, is situated on the edge of the village in

Eastwell Park Eastwell may refer to: *Eastwell, Kent Eastwell is a hamlet and civil parish about north of Ashford, Kent, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 103. The parish shares civil and church parish councils with neighbouring ...

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Neighbourhood Plan for the Parish of Boughton Aluph and Eastwell
Villages in Kent Villages in the Borough of Ashford {{Kent-geo-stub