Cheriton
Cheriton is a northern suburb of Folkestone, in the Folkestone and Hythe, in the county of Kent, England. It is the location of the English terminal of the Channel Tunnel as well as of the major army barracks of Shorncliffe Camp.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Folkestone in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Cheriton, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Folkestone West railway station and St Martins C.E.P. School Folkestone.
Folkestone West railway station
Railway station
Photo: Hassocks5489, Public domain.
Folkestone West railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the western area of Folkestone, Kent. It is 69 miles 22 chains down the line from London Charing Cross.
St Martins C.E.P. School Folkestone
School
Folkestone is a coastal town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England. The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs at a valley between two cliffs.
Folkestone Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: GkgAlf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Folkestone Castle stood on a spur of the North Downs to the north of the town of Folkestone, Kent. The Norman castle existed in the late 11th and 12th centuries and was built on a natural mound which.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peene and Newington.
Peene
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Kent located 1 mile north-west of Folkestone. It gives its name to Newington Parish Council, which has five councillors, and includes the hamlets of Arpinge and Beachborough.
Newington
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Kent located 1 mile north-west of Folkestone. It gives its name to Newington Parish Council, which has five councillors, and includes the hamlets of Arpinge and Beachborough.
Frogholt
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Frogholt is a hamlet near Folkestone in Kent, England, on the banks of the Seabrook stream. There are eight houses in Frogholt. The hamlet is part of a conservation area and lies very close to the larger villages of Newington and Peene.
Cheriton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Folkestone, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.09157° or 51° 5′ 30″ northLongitude
1.13594° or 1° 8′ 9″ eastElevation
171 feet (52 metres)Open location code
9F3334RP+J9OpenStreetMap ID
node 29175421OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Cheriton” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Cheriton”
- French: “Cheriton”
- Galician: “Cheriton, Kent”
- Irish: “Cheriton”
- Italian: “Cheriton”
- Japanese: “ショーンクリフ”
- Ladin: “Cheriton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cheriton”
- Norwegian: “Cheriton”
- Polish: “Cheriton”
- Swedish: “Cheriton, Kent”
- Swedish: “Cheriton”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Cheriton”. Photo: Carol Rose, CC BY-SA 2.0.