Photo of West Malling, a village in Kent, south east England.

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West Malling

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West Malling is a small town with a Georgian High Street, a surviving Norman keep known as St Leonard’s Tower, and Malling Abbey, still home to a community of Anglican Benedictine nuns. Easy to reach by train — West Malling station is a couple of hundred metres east.

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Photo of St Leonard's Tower, West Malling, a ruined castle in Kent, south east England.

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Early Norman tower keep in West Malling, probably built by Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, in the late 11th century and still largely intact.

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