Shepway Cross

Shepway Cross is a memorial in Lympne, Shepway District, England. Shepway Cross is situated nearby to the village Lympne, as well as near Church of St Stephen.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lympne Castle and Portus Lemanis.

Lympne Castle

Garden

Photo: Robin Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lympne Castle is a medieval castle in England that is located in the village of Lympne in Kent, above Romney Marsh. It is 18,862 square feet in size and is a Grade I listed property, described as a fortified manor house. Lympne Castle is situated 2,300 feet southwest of Shepway Cross.

Portus Lemanis

Archaeological site

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Portus Lemanis, also known as Lemanae, was the Latin name of a Roman Saxon Shore fort, settlement and port in southern Kent. The modern village of Lympne derives its name from the ancient port. Portus Lemanis is situated 3,500 feet southwest of Shepway Cross.

Church of St Stephen

Church

Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Stephen is situated 2,200 feet southwest of Shepway Cross.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lympne and Newingreen.

Lympne

Village

Photo: Cockney Laurie, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lympne, formerly Lymne, is a village on the former shallow-gradient sea cliffs above the expansive agricultural plain of Romney Marsh in Kent, England.

Newingreen

Village

Newingreen is a village in the civil parish of Stanford, in the Folkestone and Hythe district, in Kent, England, near Folkestone. It is situated on the junction of the A20 and the historic Stone Street between Lympne and Canterbury.

Pedlinge

Hamlet

Pedlinge is an English hamlet in the Kent parish of Saltwood. It comprises a chapel of ease, house, two cottages and a gatehouse to Sandling Park estate.

Shepway Cross

Type: Memorial
Category: historic site
Location: Lympne, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.07487° or 51° 4′ 30″ north

Longitude

1.03268° or 1° 1′ 58″ east

Open location code

9F3332FM+W3

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1505948606

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lympne Church of England Primary School and Lympne Village Hall.

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