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Sevenoaks è un distretto locale del Kent, Inghilterra, Regno Unito, con sede nella città omonima . Il distretto fu creato con il Local Government Act 1972, il 1º aprile, 1974 dalla fusione del distretto urbano di Sevenoaks e i Distretto rurale di Sevenoaks e parte di quello di Dartford .
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In a book by K. Baedeker entitled, Great Britain: England, Wales, and Scotland as Far as Loch Maree and the Cromarty Firth(published in 1887) it is stated that Sevenoaks "is said to be a corruption of Chevenix".
There are few records earlier than the 13th century for the town, when it was given market status. The weekly cattle market was held in Hitchen Hatch Lane until 1999. It was closed to make way for the "160 BT building" in London Road. A food market is held in the centre of town every Saturday. In the Middle Ages two hospitals were provided by relig...
A number of institutions provided healthcare in the 19-20th centuries including: 1. Sevenoaks Hospital 2. Emily Jackson Children's Hip Hospitalestablished by Sevenoaks resident Emily Jackson.
Sevenoaks is governed by a town council with sixteen members. The town is divided into six wards: Kippington, Northern, St John's, Town, Wildernesse and Eastern. The offices of Sevenoaks District Council are located in the town.
The town is situated at the junction of two main routes from the north before traffic climbs over the Greensand Ridge which crosses Kent from west to east; that situation is similar to Maidstone and Ashford. That road was one of the earliest in the county to be turnpikedin 1709, because of the clay soils. The valley to the north is that of the Rive...
The 2001 census counts approximately 18,588 residents within the Sevenoaks civil parishauthority, compared to its population in 1801 of 2,600. The built-up area of the town had a population of 24,987 at the 2011 census.
Sevenoaks, like much of West Kent, is characterised by high levels of economic activity and a skilled resident workforce. A large proportion of that workforce commutes elsewhere to their places of employment, mostly to central London. Those factors have led to high house prices and pressure on the local area to build more houses. Many of those hous...
Knole Park is a 1,000-acre (4 km²) SSSI and medieval deer park containing several thousand trees, a cricket pitch and a golf course running across. In its centre is Knole, the home of the Sackville family (the Earls of Dorset) since it was given to them by Queen Elizabeth I in 1577. The estate is owned and maintained by the National Trust, although...
There are four churches belonging to the Church of England in Sevenoaks, dedicated to St Nicholas, St Luke, St Mary and St John the Baptist; and also St Mary's at Riverhead. The Roman Catholic church is dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury; and there are some eight other denominations represented in the town. These include Hope Church (Charismatic)...
There is one mixed state secondary school, the Knole Academy, which was created in 2009 from an amalgamation of Wildernesse School(for boys) and Bradbourne School (for girls), and four state primary schools, one of which is Church of England and another of which is Catholic. Lady Boswell's C of E Primary School on Plymouth Drive dates back to 1675 ...
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Sevenoaks is a local government district in west Kent, England. Its council is based in the town of Sevenoaks . The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Sevenoaks Urban District , Sevenoaks Rural District and part of Dartford Rural District .
Sevenoaks (distretto) Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera . Sevenoaks è un distretto locale del Kent, Inghilterra, Regno Unito, con sede nella città omonima.
Sevenoaks (letteralmente "Seven Oaks " in inglese) è una città nell'ovest del Kent, nel sud dell'Inghilterra. La cittadina dà il nome al Distretto di Sevenoaks , di cui è il capoluogo, seguito da Swanley ed Edenbridge .
Sevenoaks is a borough in the far west of Kent, South East England. It was created on 1 April 1974. About 120,000 people live in the borough.
