River Len

Len
Kent rivers, showing the Len.
Location
Country	England
Region	Kent
District	Maidstone
Physical characteristics
Source	Bluebell Woods near Platt's Heath in Kent
• location	Maidstone, England
Mouth	joins River Medway
Length	16 km (9.9 mi)
Discharge
• location	Maidstone
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	The Fair Bourne, Leeds Stream
• right	Selesbourne, Holingbourne Stream or Snagbrook, Bearsted Stream

v t e River Len mills
Legend
River Len The Fair Bourne Selesbourne Fairbourne Mill Stede Street Mill Polhill Mill Chegworth Mill The Mille Le Mille Snag Brook Leeds Castle Mill Manor Mill Keepers Cottage Mill Eyhorne Mill Grove Mill Priory Mill Park Mill Abbey Mill Leeds Stream Le Nethertoune Mill Old Mill Bearstead Stream Brandescombe Mill Aldington Mill Thurnham (Ballards) Mill Lower Milgate Mill Thurnham Mill Otham Mill Otham Paper Mill Poll Mill Turkey Mill Christian's Mill Padsole Mill Church Mill Lower Church Mill River Medway

The River Len is a river in Kent, England. It rises at a spring in Bluebell Woods^[1] to the southeast of the village centre of Lenham 0.6 miles (0.97 km) from the source of the River Great Stour; both rise on the Greensand Ridge. Its length is c10 miles (16 km). It enters the River Medway at Maidstone.

The river flows in a generally westerly direction. Today it runs parallel with the M20 motorway for much of the first part of its journey: it passes between the hamlet of Fairbourne Heath and Harrietsham; after Broomfield, the river becomes the lake adjoining Leeds Castle. The Len enters the town of Maidstone south of Bearsted and its waters become the lake in Mote Park; and it enters the River Medway c1.25 miles (2.01 km) beyond.^[2]

The river powered a number of watermills on itself and its tributaries in the parishes of Ulcombe, Leeds, Hollingbourne, Boxley and Maidstone.