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Barfrestone Kent Map

Traditional county: Kent · District / Borough: Dover · Region: South East

Explore Barfrestone, Kent with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Barfrestone map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.

Interactive Map of Barfrestone, Kent

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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Barfrestone, Kent, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

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PlaceBarfrestone
Traditional CountyKent
District / BoroughDover
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude51.206768
Longitude1.236007
Place TypeHamlet

About Barfrestone

Barfrestone occupies a quiet fold of the Kentish chalk landscape, defined by an stillness that seems to gather in the hollows of the earth. It lies 6.3 miles north-north-west of Dover (from Dover: bearing 330°T, OS grid TR 261 502), and is situated west of Elvington village. The fields surrounding Barfrestone roll with a slow, deliberate gravity, their pale soils catching the low light of late afternoon. To the west, the ancient earthworks of the Rubury Butts Bowl Barrows rise like silent, grass-grown sentinels above the horizon. A short walk away, the deep, shadowed contours of Leighgate Bottom offer a sharp contrast to the high, exposed ridges of the plateau. The parish church, famed for its intricate Norman carvings, anchors the site with a dense, enduring weight of flint and limestone. Here, the air carries a crisp, mineral clarity, untroubled by the thrum of modern industry. Barfrestone remains a place where the horizon dictates the pace of the day, indifferent to the hurried world beyond its borders.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Rubury Butts Bowl Barrows (Scheduled Monument) — 0.9 mi, 244° WSW
  • Leighgate Bottom (Valley) — 1.2 mi, 261° W
  • Shepherdswell (EKR) (Attraction) — 1.2 mi, 191° S
  • Shepherdswell (EKMR) (Attraction) — 1.2 mi, 192° SSW
  • Eythorne (Attraction) — 1.3 mi, 114° ESE
  • Kelk Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.5 mi, 039° NE
  • The Green (Park) — 1.6 mi, 178° S
  • Woolwich Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 1.8 mi, 252° WSW
  • North Downs Way inlet (Attraction) — 1.9 mi, 304° WNW
  • Canterbury Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.0 mi, 137° SE
  • Ringwork And Bailey At Coldred Court (Scheduled Monument) — 2.0 mi, 156° SSE · 2 ha
  • Rectangular Earthwork In Shingleton Wood (Scheduled Monument) — 2.2 mi, 049° NE · 4 ha
  • Waldershare Park (Historic Park or Garden) — 2.3 mi, 135° SE · 325 ha
  • Goodnestone Park (Historic Park or Garden (Grade II*)) — 2.4 mi, 355° N · 113 ha
  • Fair Field (Park) — 2.6 mi, 001° N
  • Ileden And Oxenden Woods Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.0 mi, 299° WNW · 86 ha
  • Lydden And Temple Ewell Downs Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.2 mi, 166° SSE · 63 ha
  • Lydden Temple Ewell (National Nature Reserve) — 3.3 mi, 161° SSE · 78 ha
  • Twitham Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 3.5 mi, 003° N
  • Buttsole Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.9 mi, 055° NE
  • Mill Race (Lake / Reservoir) — 4.1 mi, 159° SSE
  • Wingham River (River) — 4.6 mi, 351° N
  • Dover Transport Museum (Museum) — 4.6 mi, 149° SSE
  • Covert Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 4.8 mi, 260° W
  • Port Rill (River) — 5.0 mi, 346° NNW
  • Northbourne Court (Historic Park or Garden (Grade II*)) — 5.0 mi, 079° ENE · 23 ha
  • Wingham Wildlife Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 5.1 mi, 357° N
  • Well Chapel (Historic Ruins) — 5.4 mi, 318° NW
  • Sandwich Wildlife Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 5.4 mi, 046° NE
  • Horse Marsh (Wetland) — 5.7 mi, 347° NNW

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About This Barfrestone Map Page

Explore Barfrestone, Kent, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.206768, 1.236007. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.

Page builtAugust 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.