Newchurch, Kent

Newchurch
Newchurch Church's leaning tower
Newchurch Newchurch shown within Kent
Population	315 (2011)^[1]
District	Shepway
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Romney Marsh
Postcode district	TN29
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Folkestone and Hythe
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Newchurch is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District in Kent, England. The village is located on the Romney Marsh, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Dymchurch

During the Second World War it was home to an RAF airfield, RAF Newchurch, that operated Hawker Tempest fighter aircraft under Wing Commander Roland Beamont which participated in the defence of the UK against the German V-1 flying bomb offensive of 1944. A Chain Home coastal radar station was also located there.

The parish church is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.^[2] The ecclesiastical parish forms part of the Romney Deanery of the Maidstone archdeaconry of the Diocese of Canterbury.

References

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Towns and villages in the Shepway district of Kent, England

	Acrise Arpinge Beachborough Bladbean Bodsham Breach Brenzett Brookland Burmarsh Cheriton Danton Pinch Densole Dymchurch Dungeness Elham Elmsted Etchinghill Folkestone Frogholt Greatstone-on-Sea Hawkinge Hythe Ivychurch Lade Littlestone-on-Sea Lydd Lydd-on-Sea Lyminge Lympne Monks Horton Newchurch Newingreen Newington New Romney Old Romney Paddlesworth Palmarsh Pedlinge Peene Postling Rhodes Minnis Saltwood Sandgate Sandling Sellindge Selsted Snargate Stanford Stelling Minnis St Mary in the Marsh St Mary's Bay Westenhanger West Hythe Wingmore

List of places in Kent

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