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Coxheath history
Early history
The first known site of a beacon was on the ridge near what are known today as Amsbury Road and Westerhill Road. The strategic position of the ridge determined its choice for one of the sites in the network of beacons erected in the year of the Armada.
Military Influence
Coxheath was a deserted tract of land that was the haunt of highwaymen. During the 1720s the land started to be used as a venue for cricket matches. It became a huge military camp with 12,000 Hanoverian and Hessian troops in 1756. Its former sinister reputation soon gave way to a new one – for the number of duels to be fought there, usually over the ladies of nearby Maidstone.
Coxheath Union
The Maidstone Union Workhouse was built in 1836 at a site to the south of Heath Road, Kent. It replaced a smaller workhouse built near the junction of Heath and Stockett Lane in 1771. In 1867 the workhouse was home for 600 to 700 people.
20th century
The modern civil parish was created in 1964 from areas formerly within the parishes of East Farleigh and Linton. The old workhouse was incorporated into Linton Hospital, though this, in the mid-1990s, finally closed and was demolished.
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