Headcorn is a village and civil parish in the borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. The parish is on the floodplain of the River Beult south east of Maidstone.
The village is 8 mi (13 km) southeast of Maidstone, on the A274 road to Tenterden. In addition to the parish church, dedicated to saints Peter and Paul, there are also churches and chapels for the Methodist, Baptist and Roman Catholic congregations.
There is a small airfield located nearby, where there is an aviation museum and a parachuting centre. Headcorn Parachute Club is the only skydiving club in Kent[3] and is home to national champions and world-record holders.[citation needed]
Headcorn railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line between London and Dover. It was opened on 31 August 1842.[citation needed] On 1 December the same year, the South Eastern Railway opened the second section of its main line onward to Ashford.[citation needed] By 1844, trains were running from London to Dover.[citation needed]
In June 1865 Charles Dickens was involved in a serious railway accident to the west of the village in Staplehurst on a bridge over the River Beult.
^"Headcorn CP". Neighbourhood Statistics. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
^"Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
^"British Parachute Association dropzones". Archived from the original on 15 April 2008.
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