Hythe
Hythe is in the District of Shepway, in Kent. In medieval times Hythe was one of the Cinque Ports responsible for England's maritime defence. Then the Kent coast silted up, leaving the village inland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 14,800 residents
- Description: town in Kent, England
- Also known as: “Hythe, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saltwood Castle and Hythe railway station.
Saltwood Castle
Photo: Edgepedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saltwood Castle is a castle in Saltwood village, one mile north of Hythe, Kent, England. Of 11th century origin, the castle was expanded in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Hythe railway station
Railway station
Hythe station is the northern terminus of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. The station has curved platforms with an overall roof, loco release road, former engine shed, signalbox with 16 lever frame, and a turntable.
Brockhill Country Park
Park
Brockhill Country Park is in Saltwood, near Hythe in Kent, England. The park was a former estate with landscaped gardens and has subsequently been sub-divided.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saltwood and Seabrook.
Saltwood
Village
Photo: Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saltwood is a village and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe District of Kent, England. Within the parish are the small hamlets of Pedlinge and Sandling.
Seabrook
Village
Seabrook is a small coastal village in Hythe civil parish, Folkestone and Hythe District, Kent, England. The village lies in between Sandgate and Hythe.
Sandling
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saltwood is a village and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe District of Kent, England. Within the parish are the small hamlets of Pedlinge and Sandling.
Hythe
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.0692° or 51° 4′ 9″ northLongitude
1.084° or 1° 5′ 3″ eastPopulation
14,800Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HTHOpen location code
9F33339M+MJOpenStreetMap ID
node 26883689OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Hythe” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Hythe”
- Basque: “Hythe (Kent)”
- Basque: “Hythe”
- Bengali: “হাইদি”
- Cebuano: “Hythe”
- Chinese: “海斯 (肯特)”
- Chinese: “海斯”
- Chinese: “海斯城(Hythe)”
- Chinese: “海斯城”
- Czech: “Hythe”
- Dutch: “Hythe”
- Finnish: “Hythe”
- French: “Hythe”
- Galician: “Hythe, Kent”
- Galician: “Hythe”
- Georgian: “ჰითი”
- German: “Hythe”
- Gujarati: “હાયથ”
- Indonesian: “Hythe, Kent”
- Irish: “Hythe”
- Italian: “Hythe”
- Japanese: “ケント (イングランド)”
- Japanese: “ハイス (ケント)”
- Japanese: “ハイス (ケント州)”
- Japanese: “ハイス”
- Japanese: “ハイズ”
- Kannada: “ಹೈಥ್”
- Korean: “히테”
- Ladin: “Hythe”
- Latvian: “Haita”
- Lithuanian: “Haitas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hythe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hythe i Kent”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hythe”
- Persian: “هایت، کنت”
- Polish: “Hythe”
- Portuguese: “Hythe”
- Romanian: “Hythe”
- Russian: “Хайт”
- Russian: “Хит”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hythe, Kent”
- Slovenian: “Hythe”
- South Azerbaijani: “هایت، کنت”
- Spanish: “Hythe”
- Swedish: “Hythe, Kent”
- Swedish: “Hythe”
- Tamil: “ஹைதே”
- Telugu: “హైత్”
- Turkish: “Hythe, Kent”
- Ukrainian: “Гайт”
- Ukrainian: “Хіт”
- Urdu: “ہیتھی”
- Volapük: “Hythe”
- Welsh: “Hythe, Caint”
- Welsh: “Hythe”
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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 “Hythe”. Photo: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 3.0.