Park Farm, Kent
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Park Farm is a suburb of Ashford
Ashford, Kent
Ashford is a town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the Great Stour river, the M20 motorway, and the South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways. Its agricultural market is one of the most...

, adjacent to Kingsnorth
Kingsnorth
Kingsnorth is a village and civil parish near Ashford in Kent, England.-Features:The Greensand Way, a long distance footpath stretching from Haslemere in Surrey to Hamstreet in Kent, passes through the parish on the final stretch....

 in Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

, South East England
South East England
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, created as an area of new houses, started in the 1990s. The housing estate includes a school, large superstore
Tesco
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, shops (a dry cleaners, a travel agent, Estate Agents
Connells
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 and a hairdresser). It also has a community hall, with the A2070 road, Ashford to Brenzett
Brenzett
Brenzett is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England. The village lies on the Romney Marsh, three miles west of New Romney....

, and the Marshlink
Marshlink Line
The Marshlink Line is the name given to services on the railway line linking Ashford with Hastings in the South East of England. The line was part of an original proposal by a company named the Brighton Lewes and Hastings Railway to extend its coast route to Hastings...

, Ashford to Hastings
Hastings
Hastings is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England. The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86,900....

 railway line running along the east border of the estate. At the moment Park Farm is being extended by 25% of its usual size.
The estate is served by the B-Line Stagecoach
Stagecoach
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bus, which runs every 20 minutes during the day. The introduction of over-sized speedbumps along Bluebell Road has caused annoyance for many of the residents. The estate featured on South East Today a few years ago, as a criticism of the growing homogeneity of many of the houses.
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