Pegwell Bay
Pegwell Bay is a shallow inlet in the English Channel coast astride the estuary of the River Stour north of Sandwich Bay, between Ramsgate and Sandwich in Kent.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Prince’s Golf Club and Sandwich and Pegwell Bay.
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
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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.
Richborough Castle
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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. Richborough Castle is situated 2½ miles west of Pegwell Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ebbsfleet and Sandwich.
Ebbsfleet
Village
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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. Ebbsfleet is situated 1½ miles northwest of Pegwell Bay.
Sandwich
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Sandwich is a village in Kent, one of the Cinque Ports responsible for England's maritime defence. In the 14th and 15th centuries the harbour silted up and the river changed its course, leaving Sandwich well inland: so it lost its importance and its attractive medieval centre was preserved.
Pegwell Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay on the coast of Kent, UK
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Pegwell Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pegwell Bay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pegwell Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pegwell Bay”
- Norwegian: “Pegwell Bay”
- Persian: “خلیج پگول”
- Swedish: “Pegwell Bay”
- Welsh: “Bae Pegwell”
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