St Augustine’s Cross
St Augustine's Cross is a stone memorial in Kent, in a fenced enclosure on the south side of Cottington Road, west of Cliffs End, at Pegwell Bay, Thanet, about 2 miles west of Ramsgate, 3 miles north of Richborough Roman Fort, and 12 miles east of Canterbury, in the parish of Minster.Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: high cross in Minster, Thanet, Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Saint Augustine’s Cross”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Thanet Parkway railway station and St Mary.
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. Thanet Parkway railway station is situated 1,200 feet northeast of St Augustine’s Cross.
St Mary
Church
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary is a church, which is situated 1,900 feet east of St Augustine’s Cross.
Lord of the Manor
Ruins
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Lord of the Manor is a former pub and road junction near Cliffsend on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. Two main roads, the A299 and A256 meet here and connect Thanet to the rest of the country. Lord of the Manor is situated 1 mile northeast of St Augustine’s Cross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pegwell Bay and Ebbsfleet.
Pegwell Bay
Locality
Photo: david mills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
Isle of Thanet
Locality
Photo: Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Public domain.
Kent is the most south-easterly county of England. It is popularly known as the "Garden of England" and its coastal areas are popular with visitors.
St Augustine’s Cross
- Categories: high cross, monumental cross, and historic site
- Location: Cliffsend, Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.32833° or 51° 19′ 42″ northLongitude
1.35796° or 1° 21′ 29″ eastOpen location code
9F3389H5+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 559461002OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q7592543
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Latin—“St Augustine’s Cross” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “圣奥古斯丁十字”
- French: “croix de saint Augustin”
- French: “Croix de saint Augustin”
- Latin: “Crux Sancti Augustini”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Augustines Golf Club and Cottington Hill.
Nearby Places
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