Isle of Sheppey
The Isle of Sheppey is a largely rural island off the northern coast of Kent, England, neighbouring the Thames Estuary. The whole north coast is dotted with caravan parks and holiday homes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island off the northern coast of Kent, England in the Thames Estuary
- Also known as: “Isle of Sheppy” and “Sheppey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include HM Prison Standford Hill and HM Prison Swaleside.
HM Prison Standford Hill
Prison
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HM Prison Standford Hill is a Category D men's prison, located close to the village of Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Standford Hill forms part of the Sheppey prisons cluster, which also includes HMP Elmley and HMP Swaleside.
HM Prison Swaleside
Prison
Photo: Terryjoyce, CC BY-SA 3.0.
HM Prison Swaleside is a Category B men's prison, located close to the village of Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Swaleside forms part of the Sheppey prison cluster, which also includes HMP Elmley and HMP Standford Hill.
HM Prison Elmley
Prison
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HM Prison Elmley is a local Category B/C men's prison, located close to the village of Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. The term 'local' means that this prison holds people on remand to the local courts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Minster and Bay View.
Minster
Town
Photo: Steve Hollis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Minster is a town on the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, south-east England. It is in the Swale administrative district, and within that, in the parish of Minster-on-Sea. According to the 2021 Census, the population of Minster was 17,389.
Bay View
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bay View is a hamlet in the civil parish of Leysdown, on the east side of the Isle of Sheppey in the borough of Swale in Kent, England. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 699.
Leysdown-on-Sea
Village
Leysdown-on-Sea is a village on the east coast of the Isle of Sheppey, in the borough of Swale in Kent, England. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 936.
Isle of Sheppey
- Category: landform
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Isle of Sheppey” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيبي”
- Bavarian: “Isle of Sheppey”
- Breton: “Sheppey”
- Catalan: “illa de Sheppey”
- Cebuano: “Isle of Sheppey”
- Chinese: “謝佩島”
- Chinese: “謝珀島”
- Chinese: “谢佩岛”
- Czech: “Sheppey”
- Danish: “Isle of Sheppey”
- Dutch: “Isle of Sheppey”
- Dutch: “Sheppey”
- Esperanto: “Sheppey”
- Finnish: “Isle of Sheppey”
- French: “île de Sheppey”
- French: “Île de Sheppey”
- German: “Isle of Sheppey”
- German: “Sheppey”
- Greek: “Σέπεϊ”
- Hebrew: “האי שפי”
- Irish: “Oileán Sheppey”
- Italian: “Isle of Sheppey”
- Italian: “Isola di Sheppey”
- Italian: “Sheppey”
- Japanese: “シェピー島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sheppey”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isle of Sheppey”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sheppey”
- Norwegian: “Isle of Sheppey”
- Polish: “Sheppey”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Sheppey”
- Russian: “Шеппи”
- Serbian: “Шепи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sheppey”
- Slovenian: “Isle of Sheppey”
- Slovenian: “otok Sheppey”
- Spanish: “Isla de Sheppey”
- Swedish: “Isle of Sheppey”
- Swedish: “Sheppey”
- Welsh: “Ynys Sheppey”
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