Eythorne
Eythorne is a civil parish and small village located 7.3 miles north-northwest of Dover in Kent, with a combined population of approximately 2,500 residents including nearby villages Barfrestone and Elvington.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,500 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Kent, UK
- Also known as: “Eythorne, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eythorne Baptist Church and Eythorne railway station.
Eythorne Baptist Church
Church
Eythorne Baptist Church originated in the meetings of early 16th century Baptists who had crossed the English Channel from the Low Countries to Kent to escape persecution.
Eythorne railway station
Railway station
Eythorne railway station is a station on the East Kent Railway. Originally a station on the East Kent Light Railway, It opened on 16 October 1916 but closed to passenger traffic after the last train on 30 October 1948.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elvington and Waldershare.
Elvington
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Elvington is a small pit village on a ridge in between Canterbury and Dover in the county of Kent in Southeast England. Located near Eythorne, Elvington was mostly built in the early 20th century to serve the nearby coal mine at Tilmanstone, as were other Kent Coalfield villages including Snowdown, Aylesham and Betteshanger.
Waldershare
Locality
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Waldershare is a village in the civil parish of Tilmanstone, in the Dover district, in Kent, England, near Dover. It has a church called All Saints Church.
Barfrestone
Hamlet
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barfrestone is a village and a former civil parish, now in the parish of Eythorne, in the Dover district, in east Kent, England. It is between Shepherdswell, Eythorne and Nonington, close to the former pit villages of Elvington and Snowdown.
Eythorne
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Eythorne, Dover District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.19858° or 51° 11′ 55″ northLongitude
1.26708° or 1° 16′ 2″ eastPopulation
2,500Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)Open location code
9F3357X8+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 29264931OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2649770Wikidata ID
Q1990804
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