Bilting

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Bilting
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Bilting
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Bilting
Location within Kent
OS grid reference TR056494
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Ashford
Postcode district TN25
Dialling code 01227
Police Kent
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Ambulance South East Coast
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51°12′24″N0°56′30″E / 51.206778°N 0.941787°E / 51.206778; 0.941787

Bilting is a hamlet within the civil parish of Godmersham in the Ashford District of Kent, England. It stretches along the A28 at the foot of the Godmersham Downs, five miles northeast of Ashford town. At the 2011 Census, the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Wye with Hinxhill

Bilting Farm has been growing mushrooms since the 1930s, but now most of the farm has been converted to light industrial units and only a small number of speciality mushrooms are grown for local farmers' markets. [2]

References

  1. "Location of Weald of Kent". parliament.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  2. "Bilting Farm Business Centre". Bilting Farm Business Centre. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

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