Hawkinge

Hawkinge is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of , 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.
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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.

Church
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is a church.

Museum
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The 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.

Archaeological site
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stood on a spur of the to the north of the town of , . 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.

Village
Hawkinge is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of , 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.

Village
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Swingfield is a village and civil parish in the district of Folkestone and Hythe in , England. The parish includes the settlements of on the A260 towards Hawkinge, and .

Hamlet
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is a hamlet and parish located about 3 miles NNW of in , England, near Hawkinge. was a sighting-point for the Anglo-French Survey linking the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the , undertaken by General William Roy.

Hawkinge

Latitude
51.11544° or 51° 6′ 56″ north
Longitude
1.16375° or 1° 9′ 50″ east
Population
4,290
Elevation
509 feet (155 metres)
Open location code
9F334587+5G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26740284
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2647289
Wiki­data 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: “ہاکنج”
  • Welsh: “Hawkinge”
  • “Hawkinge”

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