Kent Showground years. Kent Showground The Kent Showground, formerly (and still colloquially) known as the Kent County Showground is an area of land in Detling, Kent, England, north of the county town of Maidstone. Stretching along the north side of the A249 from the top of Detling Hill on land that formerly comprised RAF Detling, it is home to the Kent County Agricultural Society which hosts the venue's best-known event, the Kent County Show, each July. However the venue also hosts many other fairs, conferences and events throughout the year. The site covers over and has been an event site for over
Elvington, Kent Elvington, Kent Elvington is a small pit village on a ridge in between Canterbury and Dover in the county of Kent in Southeast England. Located near Eythorne , Elvington was mostly built in the early 20th Century to serve the nearby coal mine at Tilmanstone, as were other Kent Coalfield villages including Snowdown, Aylesham and Betteshanger. The name Elvington derives from the Old English meaning "farmstead of someone named Ælfwine"; a manor or farm of that name reportedly once stood at what is now the bowling club. Apparently the Romans once marched through this area of Kent using the Ashey