Brogdale

Brogdale
Flowering cherries at the National Fruit Collection
Brogdale Brogdale shown within Kent
OS grid reference	TR0059
Civil parish	Ospringe
District	Swale
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	FAVERSHAM
Postcode district	ME13
Dialling code	01795
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Faversham and Mid Kent
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Coordinates: 51°18′00″N 0°52′00″E / 51.299999°N 0.866667°E / 51.299999; 0.866667

Brogdale is a hamlet in Kent, England, located beside the M2 motorway 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Faversham. It is one of several hamlets making up the civil parish of Ospringe and is in the Borough of Swale.

It was once called by the ancient name of 'Brokedale'. This name comes from the family of John de Brokedale, who resided in the district. In 1734, the parish was owned by Mr. John Knowler, the Mayor of Faversham.^[1]

On 10 August 2003 the temperature reached 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) here, a record for the United Kingdom.^[2]

Brogdale Farm is home to the National Fruit Collection, one of the largest collections of fruit trees and plants in the world. Over 2,040 varieties of apple, 502 of pear, 350 of plum, 322 of cherry and smaller collections of bush fruits, nuts and grapes are grown here in 150 acres (61 ha) of orchards.^[3]

Brogdale Farm has been the home of Faversham miniature railway since 2001.^[4]

References

↑ Hasted, Edward (1798). "Parishes". The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent (Institute of Historical Research) 6: 499–531. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
↑ Met Office : November 2010 : Weather Extremes Retrieved 31 December 2010
↑ British Broadcasting Corporation : 17 August 2006 : A Tour Around Kent's Garden of Eden Retrieved 26 June 2010
↑ "Planning Items to be submitted to the Planning Committee" (PDF). Swale Borough Council. 26 September 2013. p. 20. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

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Brogdale Farm

Towns and villages in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England

Unparished areas	Sheerness Sittingbourne

Civil parishes	Badlesmere Bapchild Bobbing Borden Boughton under Blean Bredgar Doddington Dunkirk Eastchurch Eastling Faversham Graveney with Goodnestone Hartlip Hernhill Iwade Leaveland Leysdown-on-Sea Lower Halstow Lynsted with Kingsdown Milstead Minster-on-sea Newington Newnham Norton, Buckland and Stone Oare Ospringe Queenborough Rodmersham Selling Sheldwich Stalisfield Teynham Throwley Tonge Tunstall Upchurch Warden

Other settlements	Bay View Brogdale Chestnut Street Conyer Danaway Dargate Davington Denstroude Elmley Faversham Without Halfway Houses Harty Heart's Delight, Swale Highsted Kemsley Keycol Luddenham Milton Regis Mockbeggar Murston Norton Oad Street Oversland Painters Forstal Rushenden Shellness Uplees Waterham Whitehill

List of places in Kent

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