Sutton Valence is a village about five miles SE of Maidstone, Kent, England on the A274 road going south to Headcorn and Tenterden. It is on the Greensand Ridge overlooking the Vale of Kent and Weald.
Sutton Valence High Street looking East towards the Post Office
Sutton Valence road sign on the A274 showing the school, village, castle and oast houses
Sutton Valence Castle Keep – remains in 2014
Sutton Valence Church in the 18th century
Boughton Monchelsea is a village and civil parish in the borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. The civil parish lies on a ragstone ridge situated between the North Downs and the Weald of Kent and has
Sutton Valence
…the provision of a gas supply in the village. Many of the older buildings in the village are constructed from "ragstone" which was quarried locally at Boughton Monchelsea between the village and Maidstone. The Sutton Valence Town Mill was a smock mill built about 1720…
The interior of St Peter's Church