Nettlestead Green: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
+ geobox |
Closing stale 2022 merge proposal; no case made; no support |
||
(19 intermediate revisions by 18 users not shown) | |||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{ |
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} |
||
{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}} |
|||
'''Nettlestead Green''', like its near neighbour [[Nettlestead, Kent|Nettlestead]] lies in the [[River Medway|Medway]] valley |
'''Nettlestead Green''', like its near neighbour [[Nettlestead, Kent|Nettlestead]], lies in the [[River Medway|Medway]] valley southwest of [[Maidstone]] in [[Kent]]. |
||
It has |
It has a church and a 17th-century pub. The [[railway station]] for [[Yalding]] is actually closer to Nettlestead Green than to its own village, which lies on the opposite side of the [[River Medway]]. |
||
⚫ | It was here on 26 June 1944 that Warrant Officer R.A.B ("Red") Blumer RAAF died when his Spitfire crashed. A memorial has been erected to his memory, and on the Saturday closest to 26 June each year a memorial service is held at the crash site. Blumer's portrait, and four information panels, hang in the village pub. |
||
==External links== |
|||
{{Commons category-inline|Nettlestead Green}} |
|||
⚫ | |||
{{Geographic location |
{{Geographic location |
||
|Centre = Nettlestead Green |
|Centre = Nettlestead Green |
||
Line 11: | Line 16: | ||
|East = [[Yalding]] |
|East = [[Yalding]] |
||
|Southeast = [[Benover]] |
|Southeast = [[Benover]] |
||
|South = [[Hale Street]] |
|South = [[Hale Street, Kent|Hale Street]] |
||
|Southwest = [[East Peckham]] |
|Southwest = [[East Peckham]] |
||
|West = [[Peckham Bush]] |
|West = [[Peckham Bush]] |
||
|Northwest = [[Mereworth]] |
|Northwest = [[Mereworth]] |
||
}} |
}} |
||
{{Nettlestead}} |
|||
{{Maidstone}} |
{{Maidstone}} |
||
{{Coord|51.23|0.41|display=title|format=dms}} |
{{Coord|51.23|0.41|display=title|format=dms}} |
||
{{authority control}} |
|||
⚫ | |||
⚫ | |||
Latest revision as of 22:01, 29 July 2023
Nettlestead Green, like its near neighbour Nettlestead, lies in the Medway valley southwest of Maidstone in Kent.
It has a church and a 17th-century pub. The railway station for Yalding is actually closer to Nettlestead Green than to its own village, which lies on the opposite side of the River Medway.
It was here on 26 June 1944 that Warrant Officer R.A.B ("Red") Blumer RAAF died when his Spitfire crashed. A memorial has been erected to his memory, and on the Saturday closest to 26 June each year a memorial service is held at the crash site. Blumer's portrait, and four information panels, hang in the village pub.
External links[edit]
Media related to Nettlestead Green at Wikimedia Commons
51°14′N 0°25′E / 51.23°N 0.41°E