South East England
Kent
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Herne Bay

Herne Bay is a seaside town on the north coast of in . It is 6 miles north of and 4 miles east of . It neighbours the ancient villages of and and is part of the local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury.
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Photo: John Fielding, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Town with 35,200 residents
  • Description: seaside town in Kent, South East England
  • Also known as: “Herne Bay, Kent”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Herne Bay Museum and Gallery and Clock Tower.

Museum
Photo: Storye book, CC BY 3.0.
The Seaside Museum Herne Bay is a local museum in Herne Bay, , . It was established in 1932, and is notable for being a seaside tourist attraction featuring local archaeological and social history, for featuring the history of the town as a tourist resort, for its local art exhibitions and for its World War II bouncing bomb.

Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , Herne Bay, is a Grade II listed landmark in Herne Bay, Kent, England. It is believed to be one of the earliest purpose-built, free-standing clock towers in the United Kingdom.

Church
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eddington and Beltinge.

Suburb
Photo: Storye book, CC BY 3.0.
was a village in , to the south-east of Herne Bay, to the west of and to the north of . It is now a suburb of Herne Bay, in and Ward, one of the five wards of Herne Bay.

Suburb
is a low cliff-top suburb of Herne Bay in , . It forms the easternmost part of the urban area of Herne Bay and is just west of the small settlement of , which had an important Roman Fort and a channel which served to provide safer passage around what was the '' until the early Middle Ages.

Suburb
Hampton-on-Sea is a drowned and abandoned village in what is now the area of Herne Bay, Kent. It grew from a tiny fishing hamlet in 1864 at the hands of an oyster fishery company, was developed from 1879 by land agents, abandoned in 1916 and finally drowned due to coastal erosion by 1921.

Herne Bay

Latitude
51.37195° or 51° 22′ 19″ north
Longitude
1.1307° or 1° 7′ 51″ east
Population
35,200
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
United Nations Location Code
GB HRN
Open location code
9F3394CJ+Q7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26738888
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647057
Wiki­data ID
Q929286
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Herne Bay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هيرن باي”
  • Asturian: “Herne Bay”
  • Basque: “Herne Bay”
  • Catalan: “Herne Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Herne Bay”
  • Chinese: “荷尼灣”
  • Chinese: “赫恩贝”
  • Czech: “Herne Bay”
  • Dutch: “Herne Bay”
  • French: “Herne Bay”
  • German: “Herne Bay”
  • Hungarian: “Herne Bay”
  • Italian: “Herne Bay”
  • Japanese: “ハーン・ベイ”
  • Japanese: “ハーン湾”
  • Ladin: “Herne Bay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Herne Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Herne Bay i Kent”
  • Norwegian: “Herne Bay”
  • Persian: “هرن بی، کنت”
  • Polish: “Herne Bay”
  • Portuguese: “Herne Bay”
  • Romanian: “Herne Bay”
  • Russian: “Херн-Бей”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Herne Bay, Kent”
  • Slovak: “Herne Bay”
  • Spanish: “Herne Bay, Kent”
  • Spanish: “Herne Bay”
  • Swedish: “Herne Bay”
  • Volapük: “Herne Bay”
  • Welsh: “Herne Bay”

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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 “Herne Bay”. Photo: John Fielding, CC BY 2.0.