Hawkinge
Hawkinge is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. The original village of Hawkinge is actually just less than a mile due east of the present village centre; the village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,290 residents
- Description: village in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Hawkinge, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Luke’s and Kent Battle of Britain Museum.
Kent Battle of Britain Museum
Museum
Photo: Ron Hann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Kent Battle of Britain Museum is an aviation museum located in Hawkinge, Kent, focused on the Allied and Axis men of the Battle of Britain. The Spirit of the Few Monument is in the grounds of the museum.
Folkestone Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: GkgAlf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Folkestone Castle stood on a spur of the North Downs to the north of the town of Folkestone, Kent. The Norman castle existed in the late 11th and 12th centuries and was built on a natural mound which.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Hawkinge and Densole.
Old Hawkinge
Village
Hawkinge is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. The original village of Hawkinge is actually just less than a mile due east of the present village centre; the village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill.
Densole
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Swingfield is a village and civil parish in the district of Folkestone and Hythe in Kent, England. The parish includes the settlements of Densole on the A260 towards Hawkinge, and Selsted.
Paddlesworth
Hamlet
Photo: Rose and Trev Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Paddlesworth is a hamlet and parish located about 3 miles NNW of Folkestone in Kent, England, near Hawkinge. Paddlesworth was a sighting-point for the Anglo-French Survey linking the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the Paris Observatory, undertaken by General William Roy.
Hawkinge
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Hawkinge, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.11544° or 51° 6′ 56″ northLongitude
1.16375° or 1° 9′ 50″ eastPopulation
4,290Elevation
509 feet (155 metres)Open location code
9F334587+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 26740284OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2647289Wikidata ID
Q2482605
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Hawkinge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Hawkinge”
- Bengali: “হকিঞ্জ”
- Cebuano: “Hawkinge”
- Chinese: “霍金茨”
- Dutch: “Hawkinge”
- French: “Hawkinge”
- German: “Hawkinge”
- Gujarati: “હોકિંગ”
- Irish: “Hawkinge”
- Italian: “Hawkinge”
- Japanese: “ホーキング”
- Kannada: “ಹಾಕಿಂಗ್”
- Korean: “호킹”
- Ladin: “Hawkinge”
- Lithuanian: “Hokindžas”
- Persian: “هوکینگ”
- Polish: “Hawkinge”
- Portuguese: “Hawkinge”
- Russian: “Хоукиндж”
- Silesian: “Hawkinge”
- Spanish: “Hawkinge”
- Swedish: “Hawkinge”
- Tamil: “ஹவ்க்கின்ஜ்”
- Telugu: “హాకింగ్”
- Turkish: “Hawkinge”
- Urdu: “ہاوکینجی”
- Welsh: “Hawkinge”
- “Hawkinge”
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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 “Hawkinge”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.