Heart's Delight, Swale

Heart's Delight
Hearts Delight House
Heart's Delight Heart's Delight shown within Kent
OS grid reference	TQ8862
District	Swale
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Sittingbourne
Postcode district	ME9
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
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Coordinates: 51°20′N 0°43′E / 51.33°N 0.71°E / 51.33; 0.71

Heart's Delight is a settlement located to the south of Sittingbourne in Kent, England. Heart's Delight Road, leading to it, has the postal address of Tunstall. At the 2011 Census the population of the settlement was included in the civil parish of Borden.

According to Edward Hasted, in 1798, Heart's Delight was a small hamlet in the parish of Borden. Wrens farm was an estate in 1664 (but called 'Rains Farm') and was owned by a squire from Tunstall.^[1]

It has 4 listed buildings in the village, 'Hearts Delight House' (Grade II listed),^[2] 'Filmer House' (also Grade II listed),^[3]'Sharp's House' (also Grade II) ^[4] and 'Wren's Farmhouse' (also Grade II listed).^[5]

There is a similarly-known settlement near Barham in the City of Canterbury district of Kent

References

↑ Hasted, Edward (1799). "Parishes". The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Institute of Historical Research. 6: 68–80. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
↑ "Heart's Delight House, Borden". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
↑ "Filmer House, Borden". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
↑ "Sharp's House, Borden". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
↑ "Wren's Farmhouse, Borden". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 27 February 2014.

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Towns and villages in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England

Unparished areas	Sheerness Sittingbourne

Civil parishes	Badlesmere Bapchild Bobbing Borden Boughton under Blean Bredgar Doddington Dunkirk Eastchurch Eastling Faversham Graveney with Goodnestone Hartlip Hernhill Iwade Leaveland Leysdown-on-Sea Lower Halstow Lynsted with Kingsdown Milstead Minster-on-sea Newington Newnham Norton, Buckland and Stone Oare Ospringe Queenborough Rodmersham Selling Sheldwich Stalisfield Teynham Throwley Tonge Tunstall Upchurch Warden

Other settlements	Bay View Brogdale Chestnut Street Conyer Danaway Dargate Davington Denstroude Elmley Faversham Without Halfway Houses Harty Heart's Delight, Swale Highsted Kemsley Keycol Luddenham Milton Regis Mockbeggar Murston Norton Oad Street Oversland Painters Forstal Rushenden Shellness Uplees Waterham Whitehill

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