Coombe
Coombe is a settlement in the English county of Kent. It lies between Ash-next-Sandwich and Woodnesborough. According to Edward Hasted in 1800, it was a hamlet in the western section of the parish of Woodnesborough.Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Kent, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Coombe, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Nicholas and Richborough Castle.
Richborough Castle
Photo: Midnightblueowl, Public domain.
Richborough Castle is a Roman Saxon Shore fort better known as Richborough Roman Fort. It is situated in Richborough near Sandwich, Kent. Substantial remains of the massive fort walls still stand to a height of several metres. Richborough Castle is situated 2½ miles northeast of Coombe.
Sandwich railway station
Railway station
Photo: Edward, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandwich railway station serves Sandwich in Kent, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Southeastern. The station is 8+1⁄4 miles south of Ramsgate on the Kent Coast Line. Sandwich railway station is situated 2 miles east of Coombe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marshborough and Ash.
Marshborough
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marshborough is a small hamlet immediately adjacent to Woodnesborough in East Kent, England.
Ash
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ash is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of east Kent about three miles west of Sandwich. The civil parish has a population of 2,767, increasing to 3,365 at the 2011 Census, and includes the villages of Ash, Westmarsh, Ware, Hoaden and Richborough.
Woodnesborough
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodnesborough is a village in the Dover District of Kent, England, 2 miles west of Sandwich. The population taken at the 2011 census included Coombe as well as Marshborough, and totalled 1,066.
Coombe
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Woodnesborough, Dover District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.27186° or 51° 16′ 19″ northLongitude
1.29132° or 1° 17′ 29″ eastOpen location code
9F3377CR+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 29218100OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q5167578
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Coombe” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Coombe, Kent”
- French: “Coombe”
- Irish: “Coombe”
- Polish: “Coombe (Kent)”
- Polish: “Coombe”
- Welsh: “Coombe, Caint”
- Welsh: “Coombe”
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