Shorne
Shorne is a village and civil parish in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. The parish lies 3 miles east of Gravesend. Most of the land is well-drained but its marshes, the Shorne Marshes reach down to the Thames Estuary and are an SSSI amid the North Kent Marshes on the Hoo Peninsula proper.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,440 residents
- Description: village in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Shorne, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shorne Woods Country Park and Gads Hill Place.
Shorne Woods Country Park
Park
Photo: PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shorne Woods Country Park is located between Strood and Gravesend, in the English county of Kent. It was once part of a large estate, later passed to the county council to be used as a country park.
Gads Hill Place
Manor estate
Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.
Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gads Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens. Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thong and Chalk.
Thong
Hamlet
Thong is a hamlet southeast of Gravesend in Kent, England. The population of the hamlet is included in the civil parish of Shorne. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names and appeared as a question answer for Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4.
Chalk
Village
Chalk is a village and since 1935 a former civil parish which adjoins the east of Gravesend, in the Gravesham district, in the county of Kent, England. Chalk is situated 2 miles northwest of Shorne.
Singlewell
Suburb
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Singlewell or Ifield is an area south of Gravesend, in the Gravesham district, in the county of Kent, England. Originally two separate settlements on either side of Watling Street, it is now separated by the A2 road and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and bears little resemblance to its past. Singlewell is situated 2½ miles west of Shorne.
Shorne
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Shorne, Borough of Gravesham, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.41315° or 51° 24′ 47″ northLongitude
0.43304° or 0° 25′ 59″ eastPopulation
2,440Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)Open location code
9F32CC7M+76OpenStreetMap ID
node 160150283OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2637913Wikidata ID
Q2598092
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Shorne” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “শোন”
- Cebuano: “Shorne”
- Chinese: “肖恩”
- Chinese: “舒安恩”
- Dutch: “Shorne”
- French: “Shorne”
- German: “Shorne”
- Gujarati: “શોર્ન”
- Irish: “Shorne”
- Italian: “Shorne”
- Japanese: “ショーン”
- Kannada: “ಶೋರ್ನೆ”
- Korean: “숀”
- Ladin: “Shorne”
- Lithuanian: “Šornė”
- Persian: “شورن”
- Polish: “Shorne”
- Portuguese: “Shorne”
- Russian: “Шорн”
- Spanish: “Shorne”
- Swedish: “Shorne”
- Tamil: “ஷொர்னே”
- Telugu: “షోర్న్”
- Turkish: “Shorne”
- Urdu: “شورنی”
- Urdu: “شورنے”
- Welsh: “Shorne”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shorne Church of England Primary School and Shorne Village Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shorne”. Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.