Cliftonville
Cliftonville is a coastal area of Margate in the Thanet district of Kent, England. It includes the Palm Bay estate, built in the 1930s with wide avenues and detached and semi-detached houses with driveways, garages and gardens.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shell Grotto and Church of St Paul.
Shell Grotto
Photo: Gernot Keller, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Shell Grotto, sometimes called the Shell Temple, is an ornate underground shell grotto in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, England. The grotto, which has a passageway and main room, was dug out from chalk, a soft limestone common in the region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Palm Bay and Margate.
Palm Bay
Quarter
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Palm Bay is an area of Cliftonville, a suburb of Margate in Kent, England. The area is predominantly housing, but also has recreational land for the general public.
Margate
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Margate is a seaside resort on the north Kent coast, with a population in 2021 of more than 64,000. It's suffered the usual decline of English seaside towns but its beach is still thronged on warm summer weekends, and there are several places of interest for cold wet days.
Foreness Point
Locality
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Foreness Point is a low headland on the coast of Kent in England. It extends a short distance into the entrance of the Thames Estuary, on the north coast of Thanet, between Palm Bay in Cliftonville and Botany Bay in Broadstairs.
Cliftonville
- Type: Suburb with 12,900 residents
- Description: coastal area of the town of Margate, situated to the east of the main town, in the Thanet district of Kent, South East England, United Kingdom
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.38783° or 51° 23′ 16″ northLongitude
1.39838° or 1° 23′ 54″ eastPopulation
12,900Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)Open location code
9F3399QX+49OpenStreetMap ID
node 1640714070OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3209887Wikidata ID
Q5133354
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Cliftonville” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cliftonville”
- Dutch: “Cliftonville”
- Greek: “Κλίφτονβιλ”
- Hebrew: “קליפטונוויל”
- Irish: “Cliftonville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cliftonville”
- Russian: “Клифтонвилл”
- Ukrainian: “Кліфтонвілл”
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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 “Cliftonville”. Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.