North Foreland Lighthouse
North Foreland is a chalk headland on the Kent coast of southeast England, specifically in Broadstairs. With the rest of Broadstairs and part of Ramsgate it is the eastern side of Kent's largest peninsula, the Isle of Thanet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Smitten, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse at North Foreland, England
- Also known as: “North Foreland” and “The North Foreland Lighthouse Including Attached Lighthouse Keepers Houses”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St. Andrew’s and Broadstairs railway station.
St. Andrew’s
Church
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. Andrew’s is a church, which is situated 3,300 feet west of North Foreland Lighthouse.
Broadstairs railway station
Railway station
Photo: Atomicdanny, CC BY 3.0.
Broadstairs railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the seaside town of Broadstairs, Kent. It is 77 miles 9 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Margate and Dumpton Park. Broadstairs railway station is situated 1 mile southwest of North Foreland Lighthouse.
Palace Cinema
Movie theater
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Palace Cinema is an independent single-screen cinema in Broadstairs, Kent, England. Housed in a converted commercial building, it opened in 1965 as the Windsor Cinema, and was renamed the Palace in 2006. Palace Cinema is situated 1 mile south of North Foreland Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingsgate and Broadstairs.
Kingsgate
Suburb
Kingsgate is a hamlet in St Peter's parish, Broadstairs, Kent. The name Kingsgate is related to an incidental landing of Charles II on 30 June 1683 though other English monarchs have also used this cove, such as George II in 1748.
Broadstairs
Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Broadstairs is a beach resort on the east coast of Kent. It has sandy beaches, clean bathing water and a variety of pubs and restaurants. In 2021 its population was about 25,000.
St Peter’s
Suburb
Photo: Graham Pritchard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Peter's is an area of Broadstairs, in the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, on the Isle of Thanet, in Kent, England. Historically a village, it was outgrown by the long-dominant settlement of the two, Broadstairs, after 1841.
North Foreland Lighthouse
- Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.37487° or 51° 22′ 30″ northLongitude
1.44509° or 1° 26′ 42″ eastElevation
115 feet (35 metres)Height
187 feet (57 metres)Open location code
9F339CFW+W2OpenStreetMap ID
way 562020647OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“North Foreland Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “North Foreland Lighthouse”
- Dutch: “Vuurtoren van North Foreland”
- French: “phare de North Foreland”
- French: “Phare de North Foreland”
- Polish: “Latarnia morska North Foreland”
- Welsh: “North Foreland Lighthouse”
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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 “North Foreland Lighthouse”. Photo: John Smitten, CC BY-SA 2.0.