River Stour
River Stour is a river in England, United Kingdom. River Stour is situated nearby to the village Ebbsfleet, as well as near the locality Richborough Sluice.Places of Interest
Highlights include Richborough Castle and Prince’s Golf Club.
Richborough Castle
Photo: Midnightblueowl, Public domain.
Richborough Castle is a Roman Saxon Shore fort better known as Richborough Roman Fort. It is situated in Richborough near Sandwich, Kent. Substantial remains of the massive fort walls still stand to a height of several metres.
Prince’s Golf Club
Golf course
Prince's Golf Club is a links golf course located in Sandwich in Kent in southeast England. Prince's is immediately adjacent to the more famous Royal St George's golf club, and both clubs lie on the same stretch of coastline as nearby Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club.
Sandwich and Pegwell Bay
Nature reserve
Photo: david mills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandwich and Pegwell Bay is a 615-hectare nature reserve in Kent, managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust. It is a National Nature Reserve, and it includes a Geological Conservation Review site, Prince's Beachlands Local Nature Reserve and two Special Areas of Conservation, Sandwich Bay and Thanet Coast.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ebbsfleet and Richborough.
Ebbsfleet
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ebbsfleet is a hamlet near Ramsgate, Kent, at the head of Pegwell Bay. Historically it was a peninsula on the southern coast of the Isle of Thanet, marking the eastern end of the Wantsum Channel that separated Thanet from the Kentish mainland.
Richborough
Village
Photo: Val Vannet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Richborough is a settlement north of Sandwich on the east coast of the county of Kent, England. Richborough lies close to the Isle of Thanet. The population of the settlement is included in the civil parish of Ash.
Isle of Thanet
Locality
Photo: Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Public domain.
Kent is the most south-easterly county of England. It is popularly known as the "Garden of England" and its coastal areas are popular with visitors.
River Stour
- Type: River
- Also known as: “Stour”
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.30419° or 51° 18′ 15″ northLongitude
1.3454° or 1° 20′ 44″ eastElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
9F33883W+M5OpenStreetMap ID
way 197393058OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=riverGeoNames ID
2636775
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