Birchington
Birchington is a locality in Thanet District, Kent, England. Birchington is situated nearby to the village Acol, as well as near the town Westgate-on-Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Powell-Cotton Museum and Birchington-on-Sea railway station.
Powell-Cotton Museum
Museum
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The Powell-Cotton Museum is situated in Quex Park in Birchington and houses the diverse personal collections of hunter and explorer Percy Powell-Cotton.
Birchington-on-Sea railway station
Railway station
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Birchington-on-Sea railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the village of Birchington-on-Sea, Kent. It is 70 miles 56 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Herne Bay and Westgate-on-Sea.
Quex Park
Park
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Quex Park itself is 250 acres of parkland and gardens plus a further 1500 acres of farmed land, with Quex House and other buildings situated just south-east from Birchington-on-Sea near Margate in Kent, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Margate and Birchington.
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.
Birchington
Town
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Birchington-on-Sea is a village in the Thanet district in Kent, England, with a population of 10,392. Note that the village's name is actually Birchington - 'Birchington-on-Sea' is the name of the railway station, not the whole village.
Westgate-on-Sea
Town
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Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of Kent, England. It is within the Thanet local government district and borders the larger seaside resort of Margate.
Birchington
- Type: Locality
- Location: Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3733° or 51° 22′ 24″ northLongitude
1.2969° or 1° 17′ 49″ eastElevation
43 feet (13 metres)Open location code
9F3397FW+8QGeoNames ID
7295906
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