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| East Malling | |
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.JPG) St James the Great's Church | |
  East Malling Location withinKent | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
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| 51°17′15″N0°26′20″E / 51.287568°N 0.43897199°E /51.287568; 0.43897199 | |
East Malling is a village in the borough ofTonbridge and Malling, Kent, in the part of thecivil parish ofEast Malling and Larkfield lying south of the A20 road. In 2019 the ward had an estimated population of 5,478.[2]
The earliest recorded reference to East Malling is "in a Charter of KingEdmund I (reigned 939 – 946 AD) which refers to ‘East Mealing’, describing a gallows."[3] East Malling was recorded in theDomesday Book of 1086 asMellingete.[4]
Farming was common in the area until the 1960s especially of hops and fruit orchards, and some of this activity remains today including theEast Malling Research Station. After World War II,Malling Rural District Council developed the Step Stile and Clare Park housing estates.
The ragstone church[5] is dedicated to StJames the Great, and forms part of a Conservation Area on the High Street.
St James is the primary school, and the main secondary school for the area isThe Malling School.
There is a railway station atEast Malling with services to Maidstone, Ashford & London.
Much of the location filming for the 1960sBBC comedy programme "Mr Pastry" took place in the countryside around East Malling.Richard Hearne who starred had lived in a neighbouring village,St Mary Platt, and knew the area well.
| Climate data for East Malling (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.0 (46.4) | 8.5 (47.3) | 11.0 (51.8) | 14.2 (57.6) | 17.3 (63.1) | 20.4 (68.7) | 22.8 (73.0) | 22.6 (72.7) | 19.5 (67.1) | 15.4 (59.7) | 11.2 (52.2) | 8.5 (47.3) | 15.0 (59.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 2.2 (36.0) | 2.1 (35.8) | 3.5 (38.3) | 5.1 (41.2) | 8.0 (46.4) | 10.8 (51.4) | 13.0 (55.4) | 12.9 (55.2) | 10.4 (50.7) | 7.8 (46.0) | 4.6 (40.3) | 2.5 (36.5) | 6.9 (44.4) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 69.3 (2.73) | 51.2 (2.02) | 43.5 (1.71) | 45.5 (1.79) | 46.2 (1.82) | 47.5 (1.87) | 41.7 (1.64) | 55.5 (2.19) | 50.3 (1.98) | 73.4 (2.89) | 75.1 (2.96) | 71.0 (2.80) | 670.2 (26.39) |
| Average rainy days(≥ 1 mm) | 12.1 | 10.0 | 9.0 | 8.6 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 11.3 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 115.1 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 59.5 | 77.0 | 123.0 | 181.2 | 215.8 | 220.1 | 226.6 | 213.1 | 160.7 | 117.9 | 71.3 | 57.1 | 1,723.3 |
| Source:Met Office[7] | |||||||||||||
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