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Brabourne 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 ...
of
Brabourne Brabourne is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England. The village centre is east of Ashford town centre. Geography The village originated around the village church and this area is now usually referred to as Eas ...
, within the Ashford borough of
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. The village (centre) is just under east of Ashford town centre itself geographically. By road this is a journey of about . The village was built on former pasture land ("lees") at the foot of the North Downs. Brabourne Baptist Church is at the junction of Calland and Plain Road; there is also a Zion
Strict Baptist Reformed Baptists (sometimes known as Particular Baptists or Calvinistic Baptists) are Baptists that hold to a Calvinist soteriology (salvation). The first Calvinist Baptist church was formed in the 1630s. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith ...
Chapel to the northeast of the village, on Canterbury Road.


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Smeeth Smeeth is a mostly agricultural land use village and civil parish, centred east of Ashford in the Ashford Borough of Kent, England. Geography Smeeth is a small village in population near Mersham Hatch Park on the A20 road from Ashford to Fol ...
- village immediately to the south *
Lilyvale, Kent Lilyvale is a hamlet in the English county of Kent. It is located north of the A20 road, south east of the town of Ashford, near the village of Smeeth Smeeth is a mostly agricultural land use village and civil parish, centred east of Ashfor ...
- hamlet to the east


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Villages in Kent Villages in the Borough of Ashford {{Kent-geo-stub