Hadlow

Statistics
Population:
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	Maps for TQ635505
Administration
District:	Tonbridge & Malling
County:	Kent
Region:	South East England
Nation:	England
Other
Police force:	{{{Police}}}
Ceremonial county:	Kent
Historic county:	Kent
Post office and telephone
Post town:	Tonbridge
Postal district:	TN11 0xx
Dialling code:	01732
Politics
UK Parliament:
European Parliament:	South East England

Hadlow is a village in the Medway valley of Tonbridge, Kent; it is in the Tonbridge and Malling district. The Saxon name for the settlement was Haeselholte (in the Textus Roffensis). The Domesday Book records it as Haslow and in the Middle Ages it became Hadloe and then Hadlow. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... The Districts of England are the lowest level of local government in England, except for civil parishes. ... Tonbridge and Malling is a local government district and borough in Kent, England. ... Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... The BOGUS regions, also known as BOGUS FASCIST SCOTTISH Government Office Region, is currently the highest tier of local government subnational entity in England. ... South East England is one of the official regions of England. ... Home Nations is a term used to refer to the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (collectively, but also as separate entities, distinct from the United Kingdom as a whole), or the nations of the British Isles (traditionally... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001... There are a number of policing agencies in the United Kingdom. ... The Ceremonial counties of England are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government with reference to the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... The traditional counties of England are historic subdivisions of the country of England into around 40 regions. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... A post town is a required part of all UK postal addresses. ... Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 31,600 in 2001. ... UK postal codes are known as postcodes. ... The UK telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Numbering Plan, is regulated by the Office of Communications (Ofcom), which replaced the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) in 2003. ... To see the list in alphabetical order see the categories UK Parliamentary constituencies and UK Parliamentary constituencies (historic). ... The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ... South East England is a constituency of the European Parliament. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... The Medway Valley is a valley from Tonbridge to Rochester. ... Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 31,600 in 2001. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... Tonbridge and Malling is a local government district and borough in Kent, England. ... The famous parade helmet found at Sutton Hoo, probably belonging to King Raedwald of East Anglia circa 625. ... The Textus Roffensis was a document that detailed the laws of King William I of England and recorded ownership of land, like the Domesday Book. ... Doomesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was similar to a census by a government of today. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

The area has always been settled: Stone Age implements have been found nearby. From the Middle Ages Hadlow was owned by the Knights Hospitallers until the Reformation. It came into the possession of the May family in 1647. In Victorian times Walter May built Hadlow Castle to which his son added a folly. Stone Age fishing hook. ... The Knights Hospitaller (also known by such names as Knights of Rhodes, Knights of Malta, Cavaliers of Malta, and Order of St John of Jerusalem) is a tradition which began as a Benedictine hospitaller Order founded in Jerusalem, following the First Crusade, ca. ... The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ... Hadlow Castle, in Hadlow, Kent, was a Victorian house built by Walter May, the work beginning in the 1780s and being finished by 1843, although various additions were made later. ... Broadway Tower, England The folly at Wimpole Hall, England High Service Water Tower (1895), Lawrence, Massachusetts. ...

The church celebrated 1000 years in 1975, although it was rebuilt in the 12th century, with its tower dating from 1568. The main door of the church has the date 1636 on it. This is often misread as 1036 due to most of the upper part of the first 6 being missing. In the churchyard is a 19th century memorial to the drowning locally of 30 hop-pickers. See Hop (plant) Hop (telecommunications) Viking name for what was possibly a part of the North American coast (See also Vinland). ...

The main village street is brick-paved and there are several old houses and two Tudor inns.

Hadlow College is concerned with a wide range of land-based training including agriculture, horticulture, medicinal horticulture, landscape management, garden design, equine management, animal management and sciences, sports fisheries and countryside management.

Reference

The Kent Village Book Alan Bignell (Countryside Books, 1986)

External links

• Further notes concerning Hadlow
  • note error: The Castle was built by Walter May, not his son, who only built the folly

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