Kent
Thanet District
Cliffsend

Cliffsend

Cliffsend is a village and civil parish situated almost 2 miles west of , , United Kingdom, in the Thanet local government district. Hengist and Horsa landed near here in 410AD, and St Augustine in 597.
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  • Type: Village with 1,890 residents
  • Description: village in Kent, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Cliffs End” and “Cliffsend, Kent”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Mary and Thanet Parkway railway station.

Church
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a church.

Railway station
is a railway station in Cliffsend, Kent, that serves Discovery Park Enterprise Zone and new housing developments. It opened on 31 July 2023.

Memorial
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Augustine's Cross is a stone memorial in , in a fenced enclosure on the south side of Cottington Road, west of Cliffs End, at , Thanet, about 2 miles west of , 3 miles north of Richborough Roman Fort, and 12 miles east of Canterbury, in the parish of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pegwell Bay and Manston.

Locality
Photo: david mills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a shallow inlet in the coast astride the estuary of the River Stour north of Sandwich Bay, between and in .

Village
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village and civil parish in the Thanet district of , England. The village is situated 1.5 miles northwest of . The parish includes four hamlets and the former .

Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet near , , at the head of . Historically it was a peninsula on the southern coast of the , marking the eastern end of the Wantsum Channel that separated Thanet from the Kentish mainland.

Cliffsend

Latitude
51.32902° or 51° 19′ 45″ north
Longitude
1.36576° or 1° 21′ 57″ east
Population
1,890
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
Open location code
9F3389H8+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29027998
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
8224219
Wiki­data ID
Q2287962
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Cliffsend” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Cliffsend”
  • Bengali: “ক্লিফসেন্ড”
  • Cebuano: “Cliffsend”
  • Chinese: “克利夫森特”
  • Dutch: “Cliffsend”
  • French: “Cliffsend”
  • German: “Cliffsend”
  • Gujarati: “ક્લિફ્સેન્ડ”
  • Irish: “Cliffsend”
  • Italian: “Cliffsend”
  • Japanese: “クリフセンド”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಲಿಫ್ಸೆಂಡ್”
  • Korean: “클리프센드”
  • Ladin: “Cliffsend”
  • Lithuanian: “Klifsendas”
  • Polish: “Cliffsend”
  • Portuguese: “Cliffsend”
  • Russian: “Клифсенд”
  • Spanish: “Cliffs End”
  • Spanish: “Cliffsend”
  • Swedish: “Cliffsend”
  • Tamil: “கிலிஃ சென்ட்”
  • Telugu: “క్లిఫ్సెండ్”
  • Turkish: “Cliffsend”
  • Urdu: “کلیفسیند”
  • Welsh: “Cliffsend”
  • “Cliffsend”

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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 “Cliffsend”. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.