Dorset Road
Dorset Road is a bus stop in Swale District, Kent, England. Dorset Road is situated nearby to West Minster Primary School, as well as near Queensway Post Office.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sheerness-on-Sea railway station and Garrison Point Fort.
Sheerness-on-Sea railway station
Railway station
Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sheerness-on-Sea railway station is on the Sheerness Line in north Kent, England, and serves the town of Sheerness. It is 51 miles 19 chains down the line from London Victoria. Train services are provided by Southeastern. Sheerness-on-Sea railway station is situated 3,500 feet northeast of Dorset Road.
Garrison Point Fort
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Garrison Point Fort is a former artillery fort situated at the end of the Garrison Point peninsula at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Built in the 1860s in response to concerns about a possible French invasion, it was the last in a series of artillery batteries that had existed on the site since the mid-16th century. Garrison Point Fort is situated 1 mile north of Dorset Road.
Queenborough Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Queenborough Castle, also known as Sheppey Castle, is a 14th-century castle, the remnants of which are in the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent in England. Queenborough Castle is situated 1¼ miles south of Dorset Road.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blue Town and Sheerness.
Blue Town
Suburb
Blue Town is a suburb of the town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. It sits on the A249 Brielle Way which runs from Queenborough to Sheerness.
Sheerness
Town
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sheerness is a port town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 13,249, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby town of Minster which has a population of 16,738.
Halfway Houses
Village
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Halfway Houses is a village on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in England. It derives its name from the pub in the village centre, with the same name, which was so named because it is halfway between Minster and Sheerness, before the coastal road was built along the north coast connecting Minster and Sheerness.
Dorset Road
- Type: Bus stop
- Category: transportation
- Location: Swale District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4329° or 51° 25′ 58″ northLongitude
0.74924° or 0° 44′ 57″ eastOpen location code
9F32CPMX+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 502544899OpenStreetMap feature
highway=bus_stopOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=platform
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