Broad Oak
Broad Oak is a village in Sturry parish, Kent, England. It lies west of the A291 road to Herne Bay; the centre of the village is about half a mile northwest of the northern edge of Sturry village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Kent, England
- Also known as: “Broad Oak, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine’s Abbey.
Canterbury Cathedral
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canterbury Cathedral is the cathedral of the archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Canterbury Cathedral is situated 2½ miles southwest of Broad Oak.
St Augustine’s Abbey
Photo: Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England. The abbey was founded in 598 and functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in 1538 during the English Reformation. St Augustine’s Abbey is situated 2½ miles south of Broad Oak.
Sturry railway station
Railway station
Photo: david mills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sturry railway station is a railway station Kent, England, serving Sturry and Fordwich on the Ashford to Ramsgate line in Kent. It is 2+1⁄4 miles north east of Canterbury West, and lies either side of a level crossing.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Calcott and Sturry.
Calcott
Hamlet
Calcott is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sturry, in the Canterbury district of the county of Kent, England. It lies on the A291 road, about 1+1⁄2 miles north of Sturry and 3 miles south of Herne Bay.
Sturry
Village
Photo: pam fray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sturry is a village on the Great Stour river situated 3 miles northeast of Canterbury in Kent. Its large civil parish incorporates several hamlets and, until April 2019, the former mining village of Hersden.
Fordwich
Town
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fordwich is a market town and a civil parish in east Kent, England, on the River Stour, northeast of Canterbury. It is the smallest community by population in Britain with a town council. Its population increased by 30 between 2001 and 2011.
Broad Oak
- Category: locality
- Location: Sturry, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.31137° or 51° 18′ 41″ northLongitude
1.10815° or 1° 6′ 29″ eastElevation
174 feet (53 metres)Open location code
9F338465+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 29169484OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Broad Oak” goes by many names.
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