Museums · London
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum — Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom.
Chris Whippet — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Maidstone East · 0.2 km
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is a museum in the United Kingdom. Address: ME14 1LH. Wikidata describes it as: "Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom". Coordinates: 51.2761°, 0.5207°.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Kent Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is the regimental museum of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. It is an independent museum located inside the Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery, located in St Faith's Street in Maidstone, England. The museum displays four of the six Victoria Crosses won by members of the regiment (those of John Pennington Harman, John Coleman, Charles Lumley, and Thomas James Harris).
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 51.2761, 0.5207
- County
- Kent
- District
- Maidstone
- Parish
- Maidstone, unparished area
- Postcode
- ME14 1LH
- Parliamentary constituency
- Maidstone and Malling
- Nearest railway station
- Maidstone East — 0.2 km
- Official site
- museum.maidstone.gov.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7758971 (CC0)
- wikipedia: The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum?
- Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is in Kent, London, United Kingdom (postcode ME14 1LH), in the parish of Maidstone, unparished area.
- Is Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum a protected site?
- Yes — Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum is part of the Kent Downs National Landscape (AONB).
- How do I get to Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum?
- The nearest railway station is Maidstone East, about 0.2 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode ME14 1LH.