Wootton is a village in the civil parish of Denton with Wootton, and the Dover District of Kent, England.
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Wootton Location within Kent | |
Population | 372 (2011 Census)[1] |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Canterbury |
Postcode district | CT4 |
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Ambulance | South East Coast |
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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. The civil parish is called Denton with Wootton.
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