South East England
Kent
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Eddington

Eddington was a village in , to the south-east of Herne Bay, to the west of and to the north of . It is now a suburb of Herne Bay, in and Eddington Ward, one of the five wards of Herne Bay.
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  • Type: Suburb with 5,210 residents
  • Description: suburb of Herne Bay, Kent, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Eddington, Kent”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Herne Bay railway station and Herne Bay Museum and Gallery.

Railway station
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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 and is situated between and .

Museum
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The Seaside Museum Herne Bay is a local museum in Herne Bay, , . It was established in 1932, and is notable for being a seaside tourist attraction featuring local archaeological and social history, for featuring the history of the town as a tourist resort, for its local art exhibitions and for its World War II bouncing bomb.

Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , Herne Bay, is a Grade II listed landmark in Herne Bay, Kent, England. It is believed to be one of the earliest purpose-built, free-standing clock towers in the United Kingdom.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Herne Bay and Herne.

Town
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is a seaside town on the north coast of in . It is 6 miles north of and 4 miles east of . It neighbours the ancient villages of and and is part of the local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of , in district, in the county of , England. It is divided by the Thanet Way from the seaside resort of Bay.

Suburb
is an outlying suburb of the coastal town of Herne Bay, in in southeast . The erstwhile Thanet Way, now renumbered as the A2990 road, separates from Herne Bay.

Eddington

Latitude
51.36202° or 51° 21′ 43″ north
Longitude
1.12905° or 1° 7′ 45″ east
Population
5,210
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
Open location code
9F33946H+RJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1116848246
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
11748127
Wiki­data ID
Q5336598
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Welsh—“Eddington” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Eddington, Kent”
  • French: “Eddington”
  • Irish: “Eddington”
  • Welsh: “Eddington, Caint”
  • Welsh: “Eddington”

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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 “Eddington”. Photo: Storye book, CC BY 3.0.