Wootton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Denton with Wootton, in the Dover district of Kent, England. In 1961 the parish had a population of 164.[1]
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Entering Wootton from the south | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Canterbury |
Postcode district | CT4 |
Police | Kent |
Fire | Kent |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
The village is 7 miles (11 km) northwest from the channel port of Dover, and 30 miles (48 km) east-southeast from the county town of Maidstone. The major A2 London to Dover road is 1 mile (1.6 km) to the northeast. Denton, the other parish village, is 1 mile to the northwest.
Wootton was the birthplace of the mathematician and surveyor Leonard Digges, who some claim invented a functioning telescope some time between 1540 and 1559.
It once had a Baptist chapel, linked to the Eythorne Baptist Church group. The worldwide known Lydden Hill Race Circuit, the so-called "Home of Rallycross", is located near Wootton village.
On 1 April 1963 the parish was abolished and merged with Denton to form "Denton with Wootton".[2]
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