Hook Close

Hook Close is a bus stop in Folkestone, Shepway District, England. Hook Close is situated nearby to St George’s Church, as well as near St Andrews Methodist Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Folkestone West railway station and Sandgate Primary School.

Folkestone West railway station

Railway station

Photo: Hassocks5489, Public domain.

Folkestone West railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the western area of Folkestone, Kent. It is 69 miles 22 chains down the line from London Charing Cross. Folkestone West railway station is situated 1,100 feet east of Hook Close.

Sandgate Primary School

School

Folkestone is a coastal town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England. The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs at a valley between two cliffs. Sandgate Primary School is situated 1,500 feet south of Hook Close.

Sandgate Castle

Photo: Jamesedits, Public domain.

Sandgate Castle is an artillery fort originally constructed by Henry VIII in Sandgate in Kent, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect England against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended a vulnerable point along the coast. Sandgate Castle is situated 4,000 feet south of Hook Close.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sandgate and Cheriton.

Sandgate

Village

Photo: Jamesedits, Public domain.

Sandgate is a village in the Folkestone and Hythe Urban Area in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. It had a population of 4,225 at the 2001 census.

Cheriton

Suburb

Photo: Carol Rose, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cheriton is a northern suburb of Folkestone, in the Folkestone and Hythe, in the county of Kent, England. It is the location of the English terminal of the Channel Tunnel as well as of the major army barracks of Shorncliffe Camp.

Seabrook

Village

Seabrook is a coastal village in the civil parish of Hythe, in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England, lying on the coast of the English Channel between Sandgate and Hythe. Seabrook is situated 1½ miles southwest of Hook Close.

Hook Close

Type: Bus stop
Category: transportation
Location: Folkestone, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.08438° or 51° 5′ 4″ north

Longitude

1.14891° or 1° 8′ 56″ east

Open location code

9F3334MX+QH

OpenStreetMap ID

node 502552414

OpenStreetMap feature

highway=bus_stop

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=platform

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