Herne and Broomfield
Herne and Broomfield is a civil parish and electoral ward within the City of Canterbury. The parish is situated to the north of Canterbury in Kent. The seaside town of Herne Bay is the other side of the A299 road, Thanet Way that marks the northern boundary…Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 8,770 residents
- Description: civil parish in Kent, UK
- Also known as: “Herne and Broomfield (civil parish), Kent” and “Herne and Broomfield, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Herne Bay railway station and Wildwood Discovery Park.
Herne Bay railway station
Railway station
Photo: Simply south, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Herne Bay railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Herne Bay, Kent. It is 62 miles 58 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Chestfield & Swalecliffe and Birchington-on-Sea.
Wildwood Discovery Park
Zoo
Wildwood Trust is a woodland discovery park in Herne, near Canterbury in Kent, England. It features over fifty species of native British animals such as deer, badgers, wild boar, and brown bear.
East Blean Woods
Deciduous forest
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Blean Woods is a 151.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Herne Bay in Kent. It is also a National Nature Reserve a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Herne Bay and Herne.
Herne Bay
Town
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY 2.0.
Herne Bay is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in South East England. It is 6 miles north of Canterbury and 4 miles east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury.
Herne
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Herne is a village in the civil parish of Herne and Broomfield, in Canterbury district, in the county of Kent, England. It is divided by the Thanet Way from the seaside resort of Herne Bay.
Greenhill
Suburb
Greenhill is an outlying suburb of the coastal town of Herne Bay, in Kent in southeast England. The erstwhile Thanet Way, now renumbered as the A2990 road, separates Greenhill from Herne Bay.
Herne and Broomfield
- Category: civil parish
- Location: City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Herne and Broomfield” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Herne and Broomfield”
- Dutch: “Herne and Broomfield”
- French: “Herne and Broomfield”
- Irish: “Herne agus Broomfield”
- Polish: “Herne and Broomfield”
- Swedish: “Herne and Broomfield”
- Turkish: “Herne and Broomfield”
- “Herne and Broomfield”
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