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Palmstead Kent Map

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

Explore Palmstead, Kent with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Palmstead 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 Palmstead, Kent

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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Palmstead, 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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PlacePalmstead
Traditional CountyKent
District / BoroughCanterbury
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude51.193102
Longitude1.101033
Place TypeHamlet

About Palmstead

Palmstead emerges from the chalky folds of the Kentish landscape as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the high, wide skies of the North Downs. It lies 6.1 miles south of Canterbury (from Canterbury: bearing 171°T, OS grid TR 167 483), and is situated east-south-east of Bossingham village. The character of Palmstead is held in the stillness of its immediate surroundings, where the air often carries the damp, mossy scent of nearby Covet Wood. To the southwest, the undulating terrain of Lynsore Bottom SSSI provides a sanctuary for rare flora, grounding the hamlet in a deep, undisturbed ecology. The light here seems to sharpen as it hits the exposed fields, illuminating the flint-knapped walls that have weathered the seasons for generations. Ancient tracks trace the edges of the parish, marking a pace of life that remains tethered to the slow rotation of the agricultural year. Palmstead keeps its secrets in the shadow of these rising slopes, where the horizon is rarely broken by anything more than the flight of a buzzard or the silhouette of a distant hedge. Each turning lane reminds one that Palmstead exists as a singular point of calm, far removed from the hurried transit of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Lynsore Bottom Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 0.5 mi, 224° SW · 71 ha
  • Covet Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 0.5 mi, 056° NE
  • Colehill Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 1.0 mi, 069° ENE
  • Common (Park) — 1.4 mi, 253° WSW
  • Parkgate Down Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.5 mi, 178° S · 7 ha
  • Three Bowl Barrows In Elhampark Wood (Scheduled Monument) — 1.8 mi, 193° SSW
  • Roman Cist Burials In Gorsley Wood (Scheduled Monument) — 2.3 mi, 009° N
  • Barrow Field On Breach Down, Derringstone (Scheduled Monument) — 2.5 mi, 085° E
  • Hawthorne Trench WW1 reconstruction (Attraction) — 2.8 mi, 179° S
  • Primrose Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 2.9 mi, 135° SE
  • Broome Park (Historic Park or Garden) — 3.1 mi, 091° E · 182 ha
  • North Downs Way crossroads (Attraction) — 4.0 mi, 072° ENE
  • Swinyard's Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 4.3 mi, 217° SW
  • Leighgate Bottom (Valley) — 4.7 mi, 081° E
  • North Downs Way inlet (Attraction) — 4.7 mi, 065° ENE
  • Garlinge Theatre (Theatre) — 4.7 mi, 314° NW
  • Trout Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 5.0 mi, 215° SW
  • Farthing Common (Park) — 5.3 mi, 203° SSW
  • Wye (National Nature Reserve) — 5.4 mi, 262° W · 140 ha
  • Well Chapel (Historic Ruins) — 5.4 mi, 024° NNE
  • Nail Bourne (River) — 5.6 mi, 027° NNE
  • Shepherdswell (EKR) (Attraction) — 5.6 mi, 092° E
  • Howletts Wild Animal Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 5.6 mi, 022° NNE
  • Swan Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 5.7 mi, 334° NNW
  • Dane John Mound Pinnacle (Monument) — 5.7 mi, 350° N
  • Sole Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 5.8 mi, 162° SSE
  • Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine'S Abbey And St. Martin'S Church (World Heritage Site) — 5.8 mi, 355° N · 19 ha
  • The Lamb (Public Artwork) — 5.8 mi, 352° N
  • LanFranc Theatre (Theatre) — 5.8 mi, 355° N
  • St. Augustine's Abbey (Historic Ruins) — 5.9 mi, 355° N

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About This Palmstead Map Page

Explore Palmstead, 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: 51.193102, 1.101033. 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.