South East England
Kent
Thanet District

Broadstairs

Broadstairs is a beach resort on the east coast of . It has sandy beaches, clean bathing water and a variety of pubs and restaurants. In 2021 its population was about 25,000.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Broadstairs railway station and Dumpton Park railway station.

Railway station
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is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the seaside town of Broadstairs, Kent. It is 77 miles 9 chains down the line from and is situated between and .

Railway station
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is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the district of Dumpton between the towns of Broadstairs and , Kent.

Movie theater
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The is an independent single-screen cinema in Broadstairs, , England. Housed in a converted commercial building, it opened in 1965 as the Windsor Cinema, and was renamed the Palace in 2006.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ramsgate and St Peter’s.

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is a seaside town in close to and . 's heyday has long since passed, in common with many seaside towns, but it has a rich history, stunning views and architecture, and a vibrant cafe culture that surprises many who visit the town.

Suburb
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St Peter's is an area of Broadstairs, in the civil parish of , on the , in , England. Historically a village, it was outgrown by the long-dominant settlement of the two, Broadstairs, after 1841.

Suburb
is a suburb in the west of the town of , on the eastern tip of , England. is situated 2½ miles west of Broadstairs.

Broadstairs

Latitude
51.3587° or 51° 21′ 31″ north
Longitude
1.4408° or 1° 26′ 27″ east
Population
24,900
United Nations Location Code
GB BDT
Open location code
9F339C5R+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29029396
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2654635
Wiki­data ID
Q922739
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Broadstairs” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բրոդսթերս”
  • Asturian: “Broadstairs”
  • Basque: “Broadstairs”
  • Bengali: “ব্রডস্টেয়ারস”
  • Bulgarian: “Броадстаирс”
  • Catalan: “Broadstairs”
  • Cebuano: “Broadstairs”
  • Chinese: “布拉得斯塔尔斯”
  • Chinese: “布拉得斯塔爾斯”
  • Chinese: “布羅德斯泰斯”
  • Czech: “Broadstairs”
  • Dutch: “Broadstairs”
  • Esperanto: “Broadstairs”
  • French: “Broadstairs”
  • French: “Dumpton Gap”
  • German: “Broadstairs”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રોડસ્ટેયર્સ”
  • Hebrew: “ברודסטיירס”
  • Irish: “Broadstairs”
  • Italian: “Broadstairs”
  • Japanese: “ブロードステアーズ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಾಡ್ಸ್ಟೇರ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “브로드스테어스”
  • Ladin: “Broadstairs”
  • Lithuanian: “Brodstersas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Broadstairs”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Broadstairs”
  • Persian: “براودستیرز”
  • Polish: “Broadstairs”
  • Portuguese: “Broadstairs”
  • Romanian: “Broadstairs”
  • Russian: “Бродстейрс”
  • Serbian: “Бродстерс”
  • Slovenian: “Broadstairs”
  • Spanish: “Broadstairs”
  • Swedish: “Broadstairs”
  • Tamil: “ப்ரோடுஸ்டைர்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “బ్రాడ్ స్టైర్స్”
  • Ukrainian: “Бродстейрз”
  • Urdu: “بروادستایرس”
  • Urdu: “بروڈسٹیئرز”
  • Volapük: “Broadstairs”
  • Welsh: “Broadstairs”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Broadstairs”. Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.