Birchington

Birchington is a village and civil parish in the Thanet district of Kent, England. It had a population of 10,394 at the 2021 census. Although the village's railway station is called Birchington-on-Sea, the village's name is actually Birchington.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birchington-on-Sea railway station and Powell-Cotton Museum.

Birchington-on-Sea railway station

Railway station

Photo: Rick Ryder, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Birchington-on-Sea railway station serves the village of Birchington-on-Sea, in Kent, England. It lies on the Chatham Main Line, 70 miles 56 chains down the line from London Victoria, situated between Herne Bay and Westgate-on-Sea.

Powell-Cotton Museum

Museum

Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Powell-Cotton Museum is situated in Quex Park in Birchington and houses the diverse personal collections of hunter and explorer Percy Powell-Cotton.

Westgate-on-Sea railway station

Railway station

Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Westgate-on-Sea railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. It is 72 miles 35 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Birchington-on-Sea and Margate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Margate and Westgate-on-Sea.

Margate

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Westgate-on-Sea

Town

Photo: Rick Ryder, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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″ north

Longitude

1.2969° or 1° 17′ 49″ east

Elevation

43 feet (13 metres)

Open location code

9F3397FW+8Q

GeoNames ID

7295906

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