Birling is a village and civil parish in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent, England, about seven miles west of Maidstone.

[2] Other sources mention Birling and other place names with similar spellings with the definition: 'place of the descendants of the cup-bearer or butler'.

[7]Situated at the north end of the village, All Saints church, is mentioned in Domesday Book[8] although many sources say that the main aisles and nave were actually built 300 years later in the 14th century.

It is on the Addington to Maidstone bus route[11] and although it does not have a train station, the nearest is less than 3 miles away in West Malling.

[7] In the 1870s, Birling was described as:A parish in Malling district, Kent; adjacent to the river Medway, 2¾ miles WSW of Snodland r. station, and 6 NW of Maidstone.

The family acquired the Estate when Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester married Sir Edward Nevill.

[15] The family also had royal ties, with Queen Elizabeth I being recorded as coming to visit Henry Nevill in Birling as part of her travels in 1573.

In terms of population structure in the village, it is similar to that of the rest of the country, the majority of people are in the economically active category.