Larkfield is a village in Kent, part of the civil parish of East Malling and Larkfield in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling . Of the two parts of the parish, Larkfield is much more built-up, lying on and north of the main A20 road . The M20 motorway also passes through, with junction 4 residing at the centre of Leybourne on the A228 .
11-613: Larkfield may refer to several places: Larkfield, Kent , England Larkfield (electoral ward) , of Chepstow, Wales. the former Larkfield (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) under the Northern Ireland Parliament constituency, abolished in 1973 Larkfield-Wikiup, California (United States of America) Larkfield, Greenock is the largest council housing estate in Greenock, Scotland. [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
22-550: A campus site: Brookfield Infants, Brookfield Juniors, and Lunsford Primary. There is a small local shopping area at Martin Square, which also provides a library, a retirement home and a modern Health Centre, Thornhills Medical Practice. The main secondary school for the area is The Malling School in East Malling. Larkfield Leisure Centre was built in the 1980s on New Hythe Lane. Larkfield
33-553: A number of archeological discoveries in the area. Close to the main crossroads on the A20, Larkfield Priory Hotel , built in 1890, is allegedly haunted. The parish church at Larkfield is Trinity and there is also a Methodist church in Larkfield. A large Tesco supermarket sits to the North end of the parish, near the country park. There is also another supermarket, built originally as part of
44-483: A small sixth form with more boys than girls. It is a non-selective school in an area with selective schools, so the students enter the school with lower previous achievement than average. Most are White British with a below-average proportion of students are from minority ethnic groups. The proportion of students who receive support through the pupil premium is higher than average, and about a quarter of Year 7 students receive catch-up funding for students who failed to attain
55-560: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Larkfield, Kent The name of Larkfield is literal and descriptive – it refers to the large numbers of skylarks found in the fields ; its first recorded instance is in Domesday Book as Lavrochesfel . Larkfield was once a hundred in Kent. Larkfield has expanded rapidly since the M20 motorway
66-525: Is largely industrial and adjoins Larkfield. In 1961 Malling Rural District Council developed the "Tree"(shared with the Parish of Ditton ) and "Bird" estates, where the majority of the roads are named after species of trees and birds respectively. Similarly in Lunsford Park just north of the M20, the roads are named after famous poets. Larkfield has been of some historical interest throughout recent times, with
77-594: Is served by New Hythe and Aylesford stations, with services to Maidstone, Paddock Wood and the Medway towns. The Malling School The Malling School is a mixed high school located in East Malling in the English county of Kent . It opened as Clare Park Secondary School in 1957, designed by Read & McDermott. It is a foundation school administered by Kent County Council , who coordinate admissions to
88-650: The Safeway chain, which stands on the corner of New Hythe Lane and the London road. Following the demise of Safeway in 2004, it changed several times in quick succession, becoming first a Morrisons for a short time, as part of that company's purchase of the bulk of the Safeway estate, before being sold to Somerfield , and in 2009, re-opening, fully refurbished, once again as a Morrison's. KM Group head office based in Larkfield has now moved to Rochester. Larkfield has three schools on
99-426: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larkfield&oldid=933054005 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
110-486: The school. The Malling School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils at Key Stage 4, while students in the sixth form have the option to study International Baccalaureate programmes of study, further BTECs and A-levels. It was inspected by Ofsted in March 2023 and found to be 'good' with three out of five aspects rated 'outstanding'. The school is smaller than the average-sized secondary school, with
121-453: Was constructed in the 1970s and it continues to grow, with new housing developments being built. These are The Lakes in Leybourne, on disused gravel pits that were turned into man-made lakes. The decision to build on this area was unpopular with some residents, but the remaining lakes were turned into Leybourne Lakes Country Park to offset the impact of the new housing. The village of New Hythe
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