Cheriton Hill
Cheriton Hill is a hill overlooking the English Channel near Folkestone in the south-east corner of Kent, England. The relatively low-lying hill is covered with farmland, villages, narrow lanes, and footpaths.Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Oswald’s Church, Paddlesworth and Kent Battle of Britain Museum.
Kent Battle of Britain Museum
Museum
Photo: Ron Hann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Kent Battle of Britain Museum is an aviation museum located in Hawkinge, Kent, focused on the Allied and Axis men of the Battle of Britain. The Spirit of the Few Monument is in the grounds of the museum.
Folkestone Castle
Archaeological site
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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 Paddlesworth and Arpinge.
Paddlesworth
Hamlet
Photo: Rose and Trev Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Paddlesworth is a hamlet and parish located about 3 miles NNW of Folkestone in Kent, England, near Hawkinge. Paddlesworth was a sighting-point for the Anglo-French Survey linking the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the Paris Observatory, undertaken by General William Roy.
Arpinge
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Arpinge is a hamlet between Paddlesworth and Newington to the west of Folkestone in Kent, England. It consists of three working farms, three now converted to residential use and a further four houses.
Hawkinge
Village
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Hawkinge is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. The original village of Hawkinge is actually just less than a mile due east of the present village centre; the village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill.
Cheriton Hill
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 617 feet
- Description: hill in Kent, United Kingdom
- Category: landform
- Location: Paddlesworth, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Cheriton Hill” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “切里頓山”
- Chinese: “切里顿山”
- Dutch: “Cheriton Hill”
- Hebrew: “גבעת צ’ריטון”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cheriton Hill”
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