Shadoxhurst

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Shadoxhurst
latitude= 51.1080
longitude= 0.8195
civil_parish= Shadoxhurst
population = 1135
shire_district= Ashford
shire_county= Kent
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Ashford
post_town= TONBRIDGE
postcode_district = TN26
postcode_area= TN
dial_code= 01233
os_grid_reference= TQ973381

Shadoxhurst is civil parish [ [http://www.shadoxhurst.info/ Shadoxhurst Parish Council website] ] and a village on the Kent Weald, near Ashford in Kent, England located between the North Downs and Romney Marsh in wooded countryside and farmland. The parish covers approximately convert|2000|acre|km2, [http://www.ashford.gov.uk/about_the_borough/towns_and_villages/shadoxhurst.aspx Ashford Borough Council] ] with the Whitewater Dyke (a tributary of the River Stour) rising in the area.

It is located on the Woodchurch to Ashford road and has a 13th-century church with lancet windows dedicated to St Peter and St Paul. [http://www.ashford.gov.uk/about_the_borough/towns_and_villages/shadoxhurst.aspx? Ashford Borough Council] ] . A comprehensive historical note by Edward Hasted ("circa" 1798) gives further information about the church and the village. [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63413 "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent": Volume 7 (1798), pp. 238–244] ]