Betteshanger
Betteshanger is a village and former civil parish. now in the parish of Northbourne, in the Dover district, in east Kent, UK, near Deal. It gave its name to the largest of the four chief collieries of the Kent coalfield.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Kent, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Betteshanger, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Andrew and Church of St Augustine, Northbourne.
Church of St Martin
Church
Photo: Rosie Burnham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Martin is situated 2 miles southeast of Betteshanger.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ham and Finglesham.
Ham
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ham is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Northbourne, in the Dover district, in the county of Kent, England. It is near the town of Sandwich.
Finglesham
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Finglesham is a village in the civil parish of Northbourne, and near Deal in Kent, England, which was the location of the Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery, site of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon archaeology find known as "Finglesham man," as described in 1965 by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes and Hilda Ellis Davidson. Finglesham is situated 1½ miles east of Betteshanger.
Little Mongeham
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Mongeham is a small hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sutton, in the Dover district, in Kent, southeast England, near Dover. The main buildings are Little Mongeham House and Manor Farm. Little Mongeham is situated 1½ miles southeast of Betteshanger.
Betteshanger
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Northbourne, Dover District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.22787° or 51° 13′ 40″ northLongitude
1.31204° or 1° 18′ 43″ eastElevation
164 feet (50 metres)Open location code
9F3368H6+4ROpenStreetMap ID
node 29264928OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Betteshanger” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Betteshanger”
- French: “Betteshanger”
- Irish: “Betteshanger”
- Polish: “Betteshanger”
- Swedish: “Betteshanger”
- Welsh: “Betteshanger”
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Highlights include Saint Mary The Virgin and Northbourne Park School.
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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 “Betteshanger”. Photo: JoshTilley, CC BY-SA 4.0.