Country diary 1971: recently created New Ash Green prompts the question: what is a village?

29 January 1971 Many Kentish villages have spawned an offshoot of ‘executive-type’ properties for townsmen, while farmworkers live down the road in the council housesKENT: Only two broad fields separate the churchyard of Ash from the flat timber facades of one of the “neighbourhoods” of the newly-created village of Ash Green that is rising from the wet clays of the downland plateau. To the south lies a church, a seventeenth century house and a farm linked by a narrow lane