Knockholt
| Knockholt | ||||
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 The Portlands (historic brick building from the mid 19th century) on Cudham Lane |
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| Basic data | ||||
| status | Village and Civil Parish | |||
| surface | 7.44 km² | |||
| population | 1222 (as of 2011) | |||
| Ceremony county | Kent | |||
| District | Sevenoaks District | |||
| Constituency | Sevenoaks | |||
| Website: www.knockholtparish.org.uk | ||||
Knock Holt is a village and a municipality ( Civil Parish ) in the county of Kent in southeast England with about 1200 inhabitants. The village is located far to the west of Kent directly on the border with Greater London about 25 km southeast of central London and about 7 km south of Orpington and 8 km northwest of Sevenoaks .
During the Second World War , the homestead Ivy Farm in the district of The Pound was an important radio eavesdropping station for the British secret service , which specialized in encrypted, secret German radio telex communications (code name Fish ).
The St Katharine's Church of the Church of England
The Evangelical Church on London Road
One of the two large transmitter masts behind the fork in Main Road and Brasted Lane in the southeast of Knockholt
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Web links
- Knockholt Parish Council (English)
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ N , 0 ° 6 ′ E