Bekesbourne railway station
Bekesbourne railway station is on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line; it serves the villages of Bekesbourne and Patrixbourne, in Kent, England. It is sited 64 miles 58 chains down the line from London Victoria, situated between Canterbury East and Adisham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Bekesbourne, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Bekesbourne Railway Station”, “Bekesbourne Station”, and “BKS”
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Howletts Wild Animal Park and Church of St Mary.
Howletts Wild Animal Park
Zoo
Howletts Wild Animal Park in the parish of Bekesbourne, near Canterbury in Kent, was established as a private zoo in 1957 by John Aspinall. In 1962, the House known as Howletts was being restored. Howletts Wild Animal Park is situated 4,100 feet northeast of Bekesbourne railway station.
Church of St Mary
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary is situated 2,900 feet south of Bekesbourne railway station.
Church of St Peter, Bekesbourne
Church
Photo: Chris Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Peter, Bekesbourne is situated 2,500 feet southeast of Bekesbourne railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bekesbourne and Patrixbourne.
Bekesbourne
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bekesbourne is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne, in the Canterbury district, in Kent, South-East England.
Patrixbourne
Village
Photo: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Patrixbourne is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne, in the Canterbury district in Kent, England. It is 3 miles south-east of Canterbury.
Bridge
Village
Photo: JoshTilley, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bridge is a village and civil parish near Canterbury in Kent, South East England. Bridge village is in the Nailbourne valley in a rural setting on the old Roman road, Watling Street, formerly the main road between London and Dover.
Bekesbourne railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2614° or 51° 15′ 41″ northLongitude
1.13723° or 1° 8′ 14″ eastElevation
125 feet (38 metres)Operator
SE TrainsNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“BKS”Open location code
9F33746P+HVOpenStreetMap ID
node 6689773481OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedGeoNames ID
6945274Wikidata ID
Q4881599
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to French—“Bekesbourne railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Bekesbourne”
- Dutch: “Station Bekesbourne”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة بيكيسبورن”
- French: “Bekesbourne”
- French: “gare de Bekesbourne”
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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 “Bekesbourne railway station”. Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.