South East England
Kent
Thanet District

Ramsgate

Ramsgate is a seaside town in close to and . Ramsgate's heyday has long since passed, in common with many seaside towns, but it has a rich history, stunning views and architecture, and a vibrant cafe culture that surprises many who visit the town.
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  • Type: Town with 38,000 residents
  • Description: town in Kent, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Ramsgate, Kent”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dumpton Park railway station and Ramsgate Maritime Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the district of Dumpton between the towns of and Ramsgate, Kent.

Museum
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
is a museum in Ramsgate, , , that describes the maritime history of East Kent. The museum is situated in the Clock House on the quayside of the Royal Harbour at Ramsgate.

Museum
Photo: Mutney, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Broadstairs and St Peter’s.

Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a beach resort on the east coast of . It has sandy beaches, clean bathing water and a variety of pubs and restaurants. In 2021 its population was about 25,000.

Suburb
Photo: Graham Pritchard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Peter's is an area of , in the civil parish of , on the , in , England. Historically a village, it was outgrown by the long-dominant settlement of the two, Broadstairs, after 1841. is situated 2 miles north of Ramsgate.

Suburb
is a suburb in the west of the town of Ramsgate, on the eastern tip of , England.

Ramsgate

Latitude
51.3335° or 51° 20′ 1″ north
Longitude
1.4196° or 1° 25′ 11″ east
Population
38,000
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
IATA airport code
QQR
United Nations Location Code
GB RMG
Open location code
9F338CM9+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17915928
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2639660
Wiki­data ID
Q736439
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Ramsgate” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ramsgate, Engeland”
  • Arabic: “رامزغيت”
  • Armenian: “Ռամսգեյթ”
  • Asturian: “Ramsgate”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ramsheyt”
  • Azerbaijani: “Remsgeyt”
  • Basque: “Ramsgate”
  • Belarusian: “Рамсгейт”
  • Bengali: “র‍্যাম’সগেইট”
  • Bulgarian: “Рамсгейт”
  • Catalan: “Ramsgate”
  • Cebuano: “Ramsgate”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕامسگەیت”
  • Chinese: “公羊門”
  • Chinese: “拉姆斯盖特”
  • Chinese: “拉姆斯蓋特”
  • Chinese: “莱姆门”
  • Chinese: “萊姆門”
  • Chinese: “藍斯基”
  • Czech: “Ramsgate”
  • Dutch: “Ramsgate”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رامسجيت”
  • Esperanto: “Ramsgato”
  • Finnish: “Ramsgate”
  • French: “Ramsgate”
  • Galician: “Ramsgate”
  • German: “Ramsgate”
  • Greek: “Ραμσγκέιτ”
  • Gujarati: “રેમ્સગેટ”
  • Haitian: “Ramsgate”
  • Hebrew: “ראמסגייט”
  • Hebrew: “רמסגייט”
  • Hungarian: “Ramsgate, Kent”
  • Hungarian: “Ramsgate”
  • Icelandic: “Ramsgate”
  • Indonesian: “Ramsgate”
  • Irish: “Ramsgate”
  • Italian: “Ramsgate”
  • Japanese: “ラムズゲート”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಮ್ಸ್ಗೇಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Рамсгит”
  • Korean: “램스게이트”
  • Ladin: “Ramsgate”
  • Latvian: “Remsgeita”
  • Lithuanian: “Ramsgeitas”
  • Macedonian: “Рамсгејт”
  • Moksha: “Рамсгэйт”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ramsgate”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ramsgate”
  • Norwegian: “Ramsgate”
  • Persian: “رامس‌گیت”
  • Polish: “Ramsgate”
  • Portuguese: “Ramsgate”
  • Romanian: “Ramsgate”
  • Russian: “Рамсгейт”
  • Russian: “Рамсгит”
  • Scots: “Ramsgate”
  • Slovak: “Ramsgate”
  • Slovenian: “Ramsgate”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رامسقیت”
  • Spanish: “Ramsgate”
  • Swedish: “Ramsgate”
  • Tagalog: “Ramsgate”
  • Tamil: “ராம்சகடே”
  • Telugu: “రామ్స్గేట్ ,”
  • Turkish: “Ramsgate”
  • Ukrainian: “Рамсгейт”
  • Ukrainian: “Рамсґейт”
  • Urdu: “رامسجاتی”
  • Uzbek: “Ramsgit”
  • Volapük: “Ramsgate”
  • Welsh: “Ramsgate”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ramsgate”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.