All Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph

The Stour Music Festival is a festival of early music held in the Stour valley, Kent, England, founded by countertenor Alfred Deller in 1962. The principal venue is a medieval church, All Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph. The building has good acoustics and was used for some of Deller's recordings. After Deller's death in 1979, his son Mark Deller continued the festival, and celebrated its 50th birthday alongside his father's centenary in 2012. In 2020 Robert Hollingworth, known for his work with I Fagiolini, took over as festival director.

Boughton Aluph (pronounced Bawton Alluf) is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England, and is about 5 miles (8 km) north of Ashford on the A251 road. There are two villages within the parish: Boughton Aluph itself, and Boughton Lees. Boughton Corner is a small hamlet within the parish, further east on the A28 road. The civil parish shares its council with the smaller locality of Eastwell. The place-name 'Boughton Aluph' is first attested as 'Boltune' in the Domesday Book of 1086, as 'Boctune' in the related Domesday Monachorum, and as 'Botun Alou' in the Close Rolls of 1237. 'Boughton' means 'town or settlement where beeches grew'; the village was held by one Alulf in 1211-12, the name being a variant of the Old German 'Adalulf'.

Boughton Aluph and Eastwell are two civil parishes in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England sharing a joint parish council. They include three settlements: the villages of Boughton Aluph, Boughton Lees and Eastwell. The latter is dominated by Eastwell Park, a large area of parkland and country estate.

Boughton Lees is a village in the civil parish of Boughton Aluph, Ashford District, Kent, England. It stands on the main Ashford-Faversham road, some 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Ashford. The village church is Saint Christopher's Church, while the nearby All Saints’ Church, Boughton Aluph is the venue for the Stour Music Festival. Cricket has been played on the village green, The Lees, for over 200 years. The Eastwell Manor, a country-house hotel, is situated on the edge of the village in Eastwell Park.

The A28 is a trunk road in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in south east England, connecting Margate, Canterbury, Ashford and Hastings. Starting at the seaside resort of Margate at the north-east point of Kent, the A28 runs inland and west-southwest to the cathedral city of Canterbury, before passing through the chalk hills of the North Downs via the gap cut by the River Stour, to the town of Ashford in the Vale of Holmesdale. From here, the A28 proceeds via the market town of Tenterden, to the East Sussex seaside town of Hastings, on the English Channel.

Saint Christopher's Church is a mediaeval Grade II listed church in Boughton Lees near Ashford, Kent, part of the Church of England.The building was originally a mediaeval hall house. It was later a barn and the village school. In the 1950s, it was adopted as a chapel of ease.On 13 August 1984, the Church was placed on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, as a Grade II building.

Wye railway station serves Wye in Kent, England, on the Ashford to Ramsgate line. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.

Eastwell Park is a large area of parkland and a country estate in the civil parish of Eastwell, adjoining Ashford, Kent, in England. It was owned by the Earls of Winchilsea for more than three centuries. Over time, successive buildings have served as homes to Sir Thomas Moyle, the Earls of Winchilsea and Nottingham, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and others. The estate is now mainly a farming concern, raising crops and sheep. Part of the estate is landscaped to include a large shallow lake that can be fished and the distinctive Eastwell Towers. The largest building on the site today is Eastwell Manor, a stately home that was rebuilt on a smaller scale during the 1920s using much of the material from the previous larger house, which is now operated as a country house hotel. Hence the Manor and Towers are only Grade II listed.

Molash is a civil parish and village in Kent, South East England. It contains a small part of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) - the North Downs - and is on the A252 road between Canterbury, Ashford and Faversham. Each of these is centred 7 miles (11 km) away.

Wye is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wye with Hinxhill, in the Ashford district, in Kent, England, 5 miles (8.0 km) from Ashford and 12 miles (19 km) from Canterbury. It is the main settlement in the parish of Wye with Hinxhill. Hop varieties including Wye Challenger were bred at Wye College and named for the village.In 2013, Sunday Times readers voted Wye the third best place to live in the UK.

The College of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye, commonly known as Wye College, was an education and research institution in the village of Wye, Kent. In 1447, Cardinal John Kempe founded his chantry there which also educated local children.: 18  As of 2020, it still includes a rare, complete example of medieval chantry college buildings.: 5  After abolition in 1545, parts of the premises were variously occupied as mansion, grammar school, charity school, infant school and national school, before purchase by Kent and Surrey County Councils to provide men's technical education.: 30, 36, 48, 49, 60  For over a hundred years Wye became the school, then college, of London University most concerned with rural subjects, including agricultural sciences; business management; agriculture; horticulture, and agricultural economics. Chemist and Actonian Prize winner, Louis Wain: 441  developed synthetic auxin selective herbicides 2,4-DB, MCPB and Bromoxynil at Wye in the 1950s: 448–450  alongside his other research into insecticides, plant growth regulators and fungicides.: 451–453  Wain's colleague Gerald Wibberley championed alternative priorities for the college with an early emphasis on land use and the environment.: 454 Following World War II and a 1947 merger with Swanley Horticultural College for women,: 444  Wye transformed itself from small agricultural college, providing local practical instruction, to university: 488  for a rapidly increasing number of national and international students.: 79  Successive phases of expansion developed the college's campus along Olantigh Road,: 6  Withersdane Hall the country's first post-war, purpose built university hall of residence,: 488  and accumulated an estate of nearly 1,000 acres (400 ha). However, after a difficult 2000 merger with Imperial College and controversial 2005 attempt to build 4,000 houses on its farmland, Imperial College at Wye closed in 2009.: 30, 45, 46, 50 As of 2010, the pioneering postgraduate distance learning programme created at Wye College continued within SOAS.: 49  Many of the college buildings have been redeveloped, though some are retained for community use or occasional public access.

The Towers School and Sixth Form Centre is a secondary school (Academy) in Ashford, Kent. The school was first established in 1967 and was named after the nearby towers standing at the entrance to Eastwell Park.The school has over 1400 pupils, of which 170 are in the Sixth Form. The principal is Mr Richard Billings who has been in the role since January 2014.