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Coxheath is a village within the Borough of Maidstone. The village is approximately 2.5 miles south of Maidstone. It is mainly centred along Heath Road which links the villages of Yalding and Boughton Monchelsea.
The village has a range of services including a church, pub, ambulance station, post office, library, car dealership and funeral directors.
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King George VI recommended that the old custom of identifying villages with carved or painted name signs could be revived. In 1920, Biddenden had won a Daily Mail competition for a sign featuring the two Biddenden Maids.
More villages followed, especially in 1953, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. More signs have been put up due to the Millennium. This has meant half of the county villages are identified.]
See also Link , an article on Kent Village Signs

Classically, beacons were fires lit at well-known locations on hills or high places, used either as lighthouses for navigation at sea, or for signalling over land that enemy troops were approaching, in order to alert defences. As signals, beacons are an ancient form of optical telegraphy, and were part of a relay. Many hills in the UK are called Beacon.