Headcorn is a fairly large compact village, some ten miles SE of Maidstone in Kent. There is a small airfield located nearby at which there is an aviation museum and a parachuting centre.
Railways
Headcorn has a railway station on the main line between London and Dover. It was opened on 31 August 1842; on 1 December of the same year, the South Eastern Railway opened the second section of its main line onward to Ashford; by 1844 trains were running from London to Dover. The line here is the longest straight stretch of line in the United Kingdom.
The Kent & East Sussex Railway had its northern junction here, opened in 1905: on January 4th, 1954 the line between here and Tenterden was closed completely, and the trackbed removed; the remaining section is open as a preserved steam railway.
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