Traditional county: Kent · District / Borough: Ashford · Region: South East
Explore Folly Town, Kent with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Folly Town 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.
| Place | Folly Town |
| Traditional County | Kent |
| District / Borough | Ashford |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.167734 |
| Longitude | 0.985377 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Folly Town, a quiet corner of Kent, hums with a stillness that seems to hold the very breath of the countryside. It lies 8.3 km east-north-east of Ashford (from Ashford: bearing 75°T, OS grid TR 088 451), and is situated west-north-west of Hastingleigh village. The lanes here, often edged with hedgerows thick with bramble and hawthorn, curve with a languid grace, leading the eye towards the gentle, rolling contours of the land. Sunlight, when it breaks through the lingering morning mist, can gild the distant fields with a soft, almost liquid gold, illuminating the patchwork quilt of arable land and ancient woodland. The air itself carries a faint, earthy scent, a mingled perfume of damp soil and the distant promise of ripening crops, a testament to Folly Town's enduring agricultural heart.
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Explore Folly Town, 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: 51.167734, 0.985377. 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 built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |