Pegwell Bay
Pegwell Bay is a shallow inlet in the English Channel coast astride the estuary of the River Stour north of Sandwich Bay, between Ramsgate and Sandwich in Kent.Photo: david mills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sandwich and Pegwell Bay and Thanet Parkway railway station.
Sandwich and Pegwell Bay
Nature reserve
Photo: david mills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandwich and Pegwell Bay is a 615-hectare nature reserve in Kent, managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust. It is a National Nature Reserve, and it includes a Geological Conservation Review site, Prince's Beachlands Local Nature Reserve and two Special Areas of Conservation, Sandwich Bay and Thanet Coast.
Thanet Parkway railway station
Railway station
Thanet Parkway railway station is a railway station in Cliffsend, Kent, that serves Discovery Park Enterprise Zone and new housing developments. It opened on 31 July 2023.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ebbsfleet and St Lawrence.
Ebbsfleet
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ebbsfleet is a hamlet near Ramsgate, Kent, at the head of Pegwell Bay. Historically it was a peninsula on the southern coast of the Isle of Thanet, marking the eastern end of the Wantsum Channel that separated Thanet from the Kentish mainland.
Manston
Village
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Manston is a village and civil parish in the Thanet district of Kent, England. The village is situated 1.5 miles northwest of Ramsgate. The parish includes four hamlets and the former Manston Airport. Manston is situated 1½ miles north of Pegwell Bay.
Pegwell Bay
- Type: Locality
- Description: bay on the coast of Kent, UK
- Category: bay
- Location: Cliffsend, Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.32281° or 51° 19′ 22″ northLongitude
1.37858° or 1° 22′ 43″ eastOpen location code
9F3389FH+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 266342345OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q3425604
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Pegwell Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pegwell Bay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pegwell Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pegwell Bay”
- Norwegian: “Pegwell Bay”
- Persian: “خلیج پگول”
- Swedish: “Pegwell Bay”
- Welsh: “Bae Pegwell”
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