Shoreham
Shoreham is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 5.2 miles north of Sevenoaks. The probable derivation of the name is estate at the foot of a steep slope.Photo: Nigel Freeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 800 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Shoreham, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shoreham Aircraft Museum and Shoreham (Kent) Railway Station.
Shoreham Aircraft Museum
Museum
The Shoreham Aircraft Museum is located in the village of Shoreham near Sevenoaks in Kent, England, on the south-east edge of Greater London. It was founded by volunteers in 1978 and is dedicated to the airmen who fought in the skies over southern England during the Second World War.
Shoreham (Kent) Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Edward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shoreham railway station serves Shoreham in Kent, England. It is 22 miles 52 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Eynsford and Otford. Train services are provided by Thameslink.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Well Hill and Romney Street.
Well Hill
Village
Photo: Stacey Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Well Hill is a small rural hamlet within the civil parish of Shoreham in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It borders east of Orpington & 3.5 miles south of Swanley, adjacent to the Kent border with Greater London, within the constituency of Sevenoaks. Well Hill is situated 2 miles northwest of Shoreham.
Romney Street
Hamlet
Photo: phil elston, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Romney Street is a hamlet in the civil parish of Shoreham, in the Sevenoaks district, in the English county of Kent. Romney Street is situated 2 miles east of Shoreham.
East Hill
Village
East Hill is a hamlet in the civil parish of West Kingsdown, in the Sevenoaks District, in the county of Kent in England. East Hill is situated 2½ miles east of Shoreham.
Shoreham
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Shoreham, Sevenoaks, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.33369° or 51° 20′ 1″ northLongitude
0.17887° or 0° 10′ 44″ eastPopulation
800Elevation
187 feet (57 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SHOOpen location code
9F3285MH+FGOpenStreetMap ID
node 250968494OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Shoreham” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Շորհամ, Քենթ”
- Basque: “Shoreham (Kent)”
- Basque: “Shoreham”
- Bengali: “শোরহ্যাম”
- Catalan: “Shoreham”
- Cebuano: “Shoreham”
- Chinese: “肖勒姆”
- Dutch: “Shoreham”
- French: “Shoreham”
- German: “Shoreham”
- Greek: “Σόρχαμ, Κεντ”
- Gujarati: “શોરહામ”
- Hebrew: “שורהאם, קנט”
- Irish: “Shoreham”
- Italian: “Shoreham (Kent)”
- Italian: “Shoreham”
- Japanese: “シャーハム”
- Japanese: “ショーハム”
- Kannada: “ಶೋರ್ಹಮ್”
- Korean: “쇼햄”
- Ladin: “Shoreham”
- Lithuanian: “Šorhemas”
- Luxembourgish: “Shoreham”
- Persian: “شورهام، کنت”
- Polish: “Shoreham”
- Portuguese: “Shoreham”
- Russian: “Шорхэм”
- Spanish: “Shoreham”
- Swedish: “Shoreham, Kent”
- Swedish: “Shoreham”
- Tamil: “ஷோரேஹம்”
- Telugu: “షోరెహామ్”
- Turkish: “Shoreham, Kent”
- Urdu: “شوریہام”
- Welsh: “Shoreham, Caint”
- Welsh: “Shoreham”
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