Egerton
Village Store & Public Houses
Local Primary School
Egerton is a rural ridgetop village 9 miles north west of Ashford along rural roads and 3 miles south east of the A20 using a turn off just west of Charing. Maidstone is 14 miles west via the A20 at Lenham.
St James Church, the school and court lodge farm cluster around the hilltop which looks north across the Great Stour Valley towards Charing - along the ridge is Pluckley to the south east. To the west down the slope of Rock Hill Road are magnificent views across the farmland of the Weald of Kent, with clusters of houses at the foot of the slope and along Mundy Bois road at Egerton Forstal. Headcorn railway station is just 4 miles to the south east.
Why Live in Egerton?
The heart of the community is the Egerton recreation ground bequeathed to the village by Lord Cornwallis in 1920. This a large area of open ground behind Rock Hill Road. On the highest level is now the Millennium Village hall and parking and immediately below it is the childrens play area. The Egerton cricket ground and football pitch occupy the upper and lower playing fields and the lower field is leased to local farmers for sheep grazing. There is a wide range of properties, some infill conversions and new builds as well as detached houses in established gardens. Egerton has an active parish council and a recent neighbourhood plan. Egerton holds two week music festival in late June every 3 years run by local residents; started in 1997 to raise funds for the millennium hall, it is now one of Kent’s celebrated summer festivals.