Pegwell Bay Seal Colony
Pegwell Bay Seal Colony is in Minster, Thanet District, England. Pegwell Bay Seal Colony is situated nearby to Stonelees Nature Reserve, as well as near the village Ebbsfleet.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sandwich and Pegwell Bay and Thanet Parkway railway station.
Sandwich and Pegwell Bay
Nature reserve
Photo: david mills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandwich and Pegwell Bay is a 615-hectare nature reserve in Kent, managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust. It is a National Nature Reserve, and it includes a Geological Conservation Review site, Prince's Beachlands Local Nature Reserve and two Special Areas of Conservation, Sandwich Bay and Thanet Coast.
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 1¼ miles north of Pegwell Bay Seal Colony.
St Mary
Church
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary is a church, which is situated 1¼ miles north of Pegwell Bay Seal Colony.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ebbsfleet and Pegwell Bay.
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.
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.
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. Isle of Thanet is situated 1½ miles northwest of Pegwell Bay Seal Colony.
Pegwell Bay Seal Colony
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Category: tourism
- Location: Minster, Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.31284° or 51° 18′ 46″ northLongitude
1.36267° or 1° 21′ 46″ eastOpen location code
9F338977+43OpenStreetMap ID
node 7647707027OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Stonelees Nature Reserve and Pegwell Bay Country Park.
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