Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a hamlet in Hawkinge, Shepway District, England. Gibraltar is situated nearby to the hamlet Elvington, as well as near the locality Folkestone White Horse.Places of Interest
Highlights include Kent Battle of Britain Museum and Folkestone Castle.
Kent Battle of Britain Museum
Museum
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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 Hawkinge and Paddlesworth.
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.
Paddlesworth
Hamlet
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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.
Gibraltar
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Hawkinge, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.10777° or 51° 6′ 28″ northLongitude
1.15205° or 1° 9′ 7″ eastElevation
551 feet (168 metres)Open location code
9F334552+4ROpenStreetMap ID
node 12175689240OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
13279427
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