Kent County Show Kent County Show The Kent County Show is an event hosted annually by the Kent County Agricultural Society at their Kent Showground headquarters at Detling near Maidstone in Kent, England. The event is primarily an agricultural show, showcasing the produce of Kent farmers such as soft fruit, alongside a livestock show and various other attractions such as demonstrations of traditional skills like blacksmithery and displays from the Royal Artillery. First held in 1929, the show remains the shop window for rural Kent life, attracting around 100,000 visitors each year. The Kent County Agricultural Society was formed in 1923 with the
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