Halstead, Kent

Halstead is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 4.7 miles south east of Orpington & 6.1 miles north west of Sevenoaks, adjacent to the Kent border with Greater London. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census is 1,607.[1]

Halstead
Halstead
Location within Kent
Population1,607 (2011 Census)
District
  • Sevenoaks
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSevenoaks
Postcode districtTN14
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament

The name Halstead is derived from the Old English hald (refuge, shelter) and stede (site, place), meaning 'safe place' or 'place of refuge'. The parish church is dedicated to St Margaret. Halstead Community Primary School is located in the village.

Author Edith Nesbit spent some of her adolescence in Halstead during the 1870s and her book The Railway Children is thought to be based on her time living in a house, Halstead Hall, whose garden is about a mile and a half from the railway line.

The parish is adjacent to Fort Halstead, a government defence research centre that is thought to have developed Britain's first atomic bomb

Transport

Rail

The nearest National Rail station to Halstead is Knockholt, located 1.4 miles away.

Buses

Halstead is served by London Buses routes R5 & R10, and Go Coach route 3, connecting it with Orpington & Sevenoaks.

See also

References
  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  • Hasted, Edward - "The History of Kent" pp319–322 (1788, reprinted 1972).
  • Kitchener, Geoffrey - "Halstead in Kent - An Historical Guide" (1978).

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