Hastings

Hastings is a seaside town in in southeast England. It's run down, but has budget accommodation and several sites of interest. Hastings is most famous for the battle that took place there in 1066 between King Harold's English and William the Conqueror's Normans.
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  • Type: Town with 92,900 residents
  • Description: town in East Sussex, on the south coast of England
  • Also known as: “Hastings, East Sussex”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hastings Castle and Hastings railway station.

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is a keep and bailey castle ruin situated on the cliffs adjoining the town of Hastings, . It overlooks the , into which large parts of the castle have fallen over the years.

Railway station
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is the southern terminus of the Hastings line in the south of England and is one of four stations that serve the town of Hastings, East Sussex.

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is a public pleasure in Hastings, , England. Built in 1872 and enjoying its prime in the 1930s, it became a popular music venue in the 1960s.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint Leonards-on-Sea and Ore.

Town
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St Leonards-on-Sea is a town and seaside resort in the borough of Hastings in , England. It has been part of the borough since the late 19th century and lies to the west of central Hastings.

Suburb
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is a large suburb of the urban area of Hastings, in the Hastings district, in the county of , England. Formerly a village, it is still known and advertised locally as "Ore Village".

Suburb
is a suburb of Hastings in , England. The village falls within the Borough of Hastings.

Hastings

Latitude
50.8551° or 50° 51′ 18″ north
Longitude
0.5822° or 0° 34′ 56″ east
Population
92,900
United Nations Location Code
GB HTG
Open location code
9F22VH4J+2V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 36281092
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647356
Wiki­data ID
Q29245
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hastings” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hastings”
  • Arabic: “هايستنجس”
  • Arabic: “هايستنغس”
  • Arabic: “هيستنغس”
  • Arabic: “هيستينجس”
  • Arabic: “هيستينغز”
  • Arabic: “هيستينغس”
  • Armenian: “Գասթինգս”
  • Armenian: “Հասթինգս”
  • Asturian: “Hastings”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hastinqs”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hestinqs”
  • Basque: “Hastings”
  • Belarusian: “Гастынгс”
  • Bengali: “নহেস্টিং”
  • Breton: “Hastings”
  • Bulgarian: “Hastings”
  • Bulgarian: “Хейстингс”
  • Bulgarian: “Хестингс”
  • Catalan: “Hastings”
  • Cebuano: “Hastings”
  • Chinese: “Hastings”
  • Chinese: “哈士丁”
  • Chinese: “喜士定”
  • Chinese: “希士庭”
  • Chinese: “海斯廷斯”
  • Chinese: “黑斯廷斯”
  • Czech: “Hastings”
  • Danish: “Hastings”
  • Dutch: “Hastings”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيستينجز”
  • Esperanto: “Hastings”
  • Estonian: “Hastings”
  • Finnish: “Hastings”
  • French: “Hastings”
  • Galician: “Hastings, East Sussex”
  • Galician: “Hastings”
  • Georgian: “ჰასტინგსი”
  • German: “Hastings”
  • Greek: “Χέιστινγκς”
  • Gujarati: “હેસ્ટિંગ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “הייסטינגס”
  • Hungarian: “Hastings”
  • Icelandic: “Hastings”
  • Indonesian: “Hastings”
  • Irish: “Hastings”
  • Italian: “Hastings”
  • Japanese: “ヘースティングス”
  • Japanese: “ヘイスティングス”
  • Kannada: “ಹೇಸ್ಟಿಂಗ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “헤이스팅스”
  • Kurdish: “Hastings”
  • Ladin: “Hastings”
  • Latin: “Hastinga”
  • Latvian: “Heistingsa”
  • Limburgan: “Hastings”
  • Lithuanian: “Hastingsas”
  • Lithuanian: “Heistingsas”
  • Lombard: “Hastings”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hastings”
  • Macedonian: “Хејстингс”
  • Malagasy: “Hastings”
  • Malay: “Hastings”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hastings (Eng-lân)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hastings”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hastings”
  • Norwegian: “Hastings”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hastings”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hæstingas”
  • Persian: “هاستینگز”
  • Persian: “هیستینگز”
  • Polish: “Hastings”
  • Portuguese: “Hastings”
  • Romanian: “Hastings”
  • Russian: “Гастингс”
  • Russian: “Гэстингс”
  • Serbian: “Hastings”
  • Serbian: “Хејстингс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hastings, Sussex”
  • Slovak: “Hastings”
  • Slovenian: “Hastings”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیستینقز”
  • Spanish: “Hastings”
  • Swedish: “Hastings”
  • Tagalog: “Hastings”
  • Tamil: “ஹேஸ்டிங்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Һейстиңс”
  • Telugu: “హస్టింగ్స్”
  • Turkish: “Hastings”
  • Ukrainian: “Гастинґс”
  • Ukrainian: “Гастінгс”
  • Urdu: “ہیسٹینگز”
  • Volapük: “Hastings”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hastings”
  • Welsh: “Hastings”
  • Wu Chinese: “海斯廷斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “希斯汀”
  • “Hastings”
  • “Hastings, East Sussex”
  • “Hastings, Sussex Tlāpcopa”

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