Lympne
Lympne, formerly also Lymne, is a village on the former shallow-gradient sea cliffs above the expansive agricultural plain of Romney Marsh in Kent, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cockney Laurie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,700 residents
- Description: village in Kent, England
- Also known as: “Lympne, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lympne Castle and Church of St Stephen.
Lympne Castle
Garden
Photo: Robin Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lympne Castle is a medieval castle in England that is located in the village of Lympne in Kent, above Romney Marsh. It is 18,862 square feet in size and is a Grade I listed property, described as a fortified manor house.
Portus Lemanis
Archaeological site
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portus Lemanis, also known as Lemanae, was the Latin name of a Roman Saxon Shore fort, settlement and port in southern Kent. The modern village of Lympne derives its name from the ancient port.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newingreen and Westenhanger.
Newingreen
Village
Newingreen is a village near Folkestone in Kent, England. It is situated on the junction of the A20 and the historic Stone Street between Lympne and Canterbury. The village is near Junction 11 of the M20. It is in the civil parish of Stanford.
Westenhanger
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanford is a village and civil parish in Kent, England. It is part of the Folkestone and Hythe district. The village developed along the ancient Roman Stone Street and was divided by the construction of the M20 motorway into Stanford North and Stanford South.
Pedlinge
Hamlet
Pedlinge is an English hamlet in the Kent parish of Saltwood. It comprises a chapel of ease, house, two cottages and a gatehouse to Sandling Park estate.
Lympne
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Lympne, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.07578° or 51° 4′ 33″ northLongitude
1.02725° or 1° 1′ 38″ eastPopulation
1,700Elevation
325 feet (99 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LYNOpen location code
9F3332GG+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 29165376OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Lympne” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Lympne”
- Cebuano: “Lympne”
- Dutch: “Lympne”
- French: “Lympne”
- German: “Lympne”
- Irish: “Lympne”
- Italian: “Lympne”
- Japanese: “リム”
- Japanese: “リンプネ”
- Ladin: “Lympne”
- Latin: “Portus Lemanis”
- Persian: “لیمپن”
- Polish: “Lympne”
- Russian: “Лимпн”
- Spanish: “Lympne”
- Swedish: “Lympne”
- Turkish: “Lympne”
- Welsh: “Lympne”
- “Lympne”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lympne Church of England Primary School and Lympne 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 “Lympne”. Photo: Cockney Laurie, CC BY-SA 2.0.