Orpington (UK Parliament constituency)
Orpington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Jo Johnson, a Conservative.
Hadlow is a village in the Medway valley, near 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.
Population: 2,845
Latitude: 51° 13' 27.01" N
Longitude: 0° 20' 20.90" E
Orpington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Jo Johnson, a Conservative.
Maidstone and The Weald is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Helen Grant, a Conservative.
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Down House is the former home of the English naturalist Charles Darwin and his family.
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Chatham Historic Dockyard is a maritime museum on part of the site of the former royal/naval dockyard at Chatham in Kent, South East England.
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The Staplehurst rail crash was a derailment at Staplehurst, Kent on 9 June 1865 at 3:13 pm. The South Eastern Railway Folkestone to London boat train derailed while crossing a viaduct where a length of track had been removed during engineering works…
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