Traditional county: Kent · District / Borough: Ashford · Region: South East
Explore Shirkoak, Kent with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Shirkoak 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.
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| Place | Shirkoak |
| Traditional County | Kent |
| District / Borough | Ashford |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.090271 |
| Longitude | 0.773776 |
| Place Type | Village |
Shirkoak emerges from the low-lying Wealden landscape as a cluster of quiet habitations bound by the rhythms of Kentish agriculture. It lies 4.2 miles east-north-east of Tenterden (from Tenterden: bearing 68°T, OS grid TQ 943 359), and is situated north of Woodchurch village. The light here has a peculiar, silvered quality, catching the damp edges of the fields where the land begins to soften toward the marshy basins. Eastward, the Alex Farm Pastures Sssi preserves a fragile, unmanicured biodiversity that seems to hold the spirit of the ancient landscape in its four hectares. This quietude is punctuated only by the occasional passage of farm machinery or the distant, rhythmic lowing of livestock. A short distance to the south-west, the Woodchurch Museum serves as a repository for the heavy, iron-wrought tools that once defined the toil of the local labourer. Shirkoak maintains a reserved character, eschewing grand gestures for the steady, honest business of maintaining its hedgerows and verges. The air carries a scent of turned earth and damp wood, grounding the observer in a geography that has remained stubbornly resistant to the frantic pace of the modern world.
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Explore Shirkoak, 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: 51.090271, 0.773776. 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 | August 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. |