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This pedestrian-friendly
commuter town provides a mixture of modern and
historic buildings set against a backdrop of
floral displays, street entertainment and
continental-style pavement cafes. Formerly an
important centre for the manufacture of
locomotives, it now has an international Eurostar
rail station. In some of its old, narrow streets
are overhanging, half- timbered houses while its
parish church was mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Nearby are picture postcard villages full of
history, notably Biddenden, Chilham, Smarden and
Pluckley – the county’s ‘most haunted’ village.
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