Woodnesborough
Woodnesborough is a village in the Dover District of Kent, England, 2 miles west of Sandwich. The population taken at the 2011 census included Coombe as well as Marshborough, and totalled 1,066.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,030 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Kent, UK
- Also known as: “Woodnesborough, Kent”
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sandwich railway station and Richborough Castle.
Sandwich railway station
Railway station
Photo: Edward, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandwich railway station serves Sandwich in Kent, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Southeastern. The station is 8+1⁄4 miles south of Ramsgate on the Kent Coast Line. Sandwich railway station is situated 1½ miles east of Woodnesborough.
Richborough Castle
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Richborough Castle is a Roman Saxon Shore fort better known as Richborough Roman Fort. It is situated in Richborough near Sandwich, Kent. Substantial remains of the massive fort walls still stand to a height of several metres. Richborough Castle is situated 2½ miles northeast of Woodnesborough.
St Mary’s Church
Church
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the town of Sandwich, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. St Mary’s Church is situated 1½ miles northeast of Woodnesborough.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marshborough and Coombe.
Marshborough
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marshborough is a small hamlet immediately adjacent to Woodnesborough in East Kent, England.
Coombe
Hamlet
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Coombe is a settlement in the English county of Kent. It lies between Ash-next-Sandwich and Woodnesborough. According to Edward Hasted in 1800, it was a hamlet in the western section of the parish of Woodnesborough.
Ash
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ash is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of east Kent about three miles west of Sandwich. The civil parish has a population of 2,767, increasing to 3,365 at the 2011 Census, and includes the villages of Ash, Westmarsh, Ware, Hoaden and Richborough. Ash is situated 1½ miles northwest of Woodnesborough.
Woodnesborough
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Woodnesborough, Dover District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.26337° or 51° 15′ 48″ northLongitude
1.30521° or 1° 18′ 19″ eastPopulation
1,030Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)Open location code
9F337874+83OpenStreetMap ID
node 29218166OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12264970Wikidata ID
Q3192739
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Woodnesborough” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Woodnesborough”
- Dutch: “Woodnesborough”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ودنيسبوروغ”
- French: “Woodnesborough”
- Irish: “Woodnesborough”
- Italian: “Woodnesborough”
- Japanese: “ウィンズバラ”
- Ladin: “Woodnesborough”
- Persian: “وودنسبرا”
- Polish: “Woodnesborough”
- Swedish: “Woodnesborough”
- Turkish: “Woodnesborough”
- Welsh: “Woodnesborough”
- “Woodnesborough”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Mary The Blessed Virgin Church and Woodnesborough Village Hall.
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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 “Woodnesborough”. Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.