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Platt, or St. Mary's Platt is a village and civil parish in the local government district of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England.
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  Platt Location within Kent | |
| Population | 1,679 (2011 Census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TQ622570 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Sevenoaks |
| Postcode district | TN15 |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
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The hamlet of Crouch (pronounced Crooch) lies within the parish. The River Bourne flows through the western part of the parish. Basted paper mill was within the parish boundary.
The Anglican parish church of St Mary's dates from 1843 and stands on a hill overlooking the village centre. The architects were Whichcord and Walker of Maidstone.[2]
BBC broadcaster Adam Curtis grew up in Platt.[3]
Interment
Richard Hearne is buried in the churchyard. He was an actor, who lived at Platt Farm, a fifteenth-century property in Long Mill Lane in the village, from the 1940s, from where he ran a market garden.[4]
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References
- "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- "A History of the Church Building". St Mary's, Platt. Archived from the original on 2 September 2018.
- Lethem, Jonathan (27 October 2016). "Adam Curtis and the Secret History of Everything". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- "The Television Annual for 1952", ed. by Kenneth Baily, Odhams Press, p. 94.
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