Stowting
village and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom
Stowting is a village and civil parish in the English county of Kent. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Ashford, 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Folkestone and 10 miles (16 km) south of Canterbury.
History
The place name Stowting is Anglo-Saxon, meaning a 'place characterized by a mound.' It was known in the time of the Domesday Book as Stotinges and Estotinges, and in later records it was called Stutinges and Stowling.
The Manor of Stowting was given by Egelric Bigge, to Christ Church, in Canterbury in the year 1044. The parish church is 13th century with many later additions and alterations. It is dedicated to St Mary and is built from flint with stone dressings with a flint tower. It is a Grade II listed building. To the west of the church are the remains of a castle mound which are considered to be a particularly fine example of a Norman Motte-and-bailey castle. In 1947, a Douglas C-47A crashed on the hillside above the village, killing eight of the 16 people on board.
The modern village
The scattered village stands at the southern foot of a chalk hill, part of the North Downs and is located beside a chalk spring.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7620723. Authority coordinates are 51.133, 1.033. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1044 and 1947.
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This entry incorporates text from “Stowting” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.