Kearsney

:''For the boys school in South Africa, see Kearsney College.

Kearsney is a village in Kent, although at one time it would have been called hamlet due to there being no church in the village. The name is taken from an old Saxon name for a place where watercress grows. Kearsney is situated between the parishes of River and Ewell. Being an administrative part of Dover borough it was part of the parish of River.

Kearsney railway station takes its name from the area, as does Kearsney Abbey, which was not actually an Abbey, but a country house with large pleasant grounds. It is situated on the River Dour, more a large stream than river, but big enough to sustain flour mills and paper mills along its path.

There is also a Catholic convent near to the railway station.

Kearsney station was actually the station for Ewell and the parish of River. The community of Kearsney grew around the Railway Bell Hotel which was on the main Dover to London road. The station had a small goods siding, and a siding for passenger trains. The next stop towards the coast was Dover, and there was also a loop that took the railway directly onto the Thanet line towards Margate, bypassing Dover. In the early days of the railway this meant trains did not always have to make the steep climb out of Dover. In practise it was little used for passenger trains, mainly used by freight. Latterly the line was used by coal trains to Richborough power station.

If an area can be defined as Kearsney it is the rectangle of Kearsney Avenue forming two sides and the London Road and Sandwich Roads forming the other two.

The famous boys school, Kearsney College in South Africa takes its name from Kearsney.