Lynsted

Lynsted
Scuttington Manor Oast House
inside church of St Peter and St Paul, Lynsted
Lynsted is located in Kent
Lynsted
Lynsted
Location within Kent
Population1,600 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceTQ 943608
Civil parish
  • Lynsted with Kingsdown
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSittingbourne
Postcode districtME9
Dialling code01795
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Kent
51°18′47″N 0°47′09″E / 51.313°N 0.7859°E / 51.313; 0.7859

Lynsted is a village in Lynsted with Kingsdown civil parish in the Swale borough of Kent, England. The village is situated south of the A2 road between Faversham and Sittingbourne and the nearest M2 junction is Faversham three miles east. Lynsted is in many respects an archetypal old English village with church, churchyard with an ancient yew, pub (the Black Lion) and a duck pond. The village is locally referred to as Lovely, Lovely Lynsted and various songs have been written about it.

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 September 2016.