Hampton
Hampton-on-Sea is a drowned and abandoned village in what is now the Hampton area of Herne Bay, Kent. It grew from a tiny fishing hamlet in 1864 at the hands of an oyster fishery company, was developed from 1879 by land agents, abandoned in 1916 and finally drowned due to coastal erosion by 1921.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Herne Bay, Kent, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Hampton, Herne Bay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Andrew’s Church and Herne Bay railway station.
Herne Bay railway station
Railway station
Photo: Simply south, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Herne Bay railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Herne Bay, Kent. It is 62 miles 58 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Chestfield & Swalecliffe and Birchington-on-Sea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greenhill and Herne Bay.
Greenhill
Suburb
Greenhill is an outlying suburb of the coastal town of Herne Bay, in Kent in southeast England. The erstwhile Thanet Way, now renumbered as the A2990 road, separates Greenhill from Herne Bay.
Herne Bay
Town
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY 2.0.
Herne Bay is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in South East England. It is 6 miles north of Canterbury and 4 miles east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury.
Eddington
Suburb
Photo: Storye book, CC BY 3.0.
Eddington was a village in Kent, South East England to the south-east of Herne Bay, to the west of Beltinge and to the north of Herne. It is now a suburb of Herne Bay, in Greenhill and Eddington Ward, one of the five wards of Herne Bay.
Hampton
- Category: locality
- Location: City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.36886° or 51° 22′ 8″ northLongitude
1.10389° or 1° 6′ 14″ eastElevation
69 feet (21 metres)Open location code
9F339493+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 29162102OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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