Shoreham

Shoreham is a village and civil parish in the of , . It is located 5.2 miles north of . The probable derivation of the name is estate at the foot of a steep slope.
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  • Type: Village with 800 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Kent, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Shoreham, Kent”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shoreham (Kent) Railway Station and Shoreham Aircraft Museum.

Railway station
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Shoreham railway station serves Shoreham in , . It is 22 miles 52 chains down the line from and is situated between and . Train services are provided by Thameslink.

Museum
The is located in the village of Shoreham near in , England, on the south-east edge of . It was founded by volunteers in 1978 and is dedicated to the airmen who fought in the skies over southern England during the Second World War.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eynsford and Well Hill.

Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village of 1,800 people in . The village is near Brands Hatch – a race track in , most famous for its circuit. It has grown from a modest natural amphitheatre used for local races in the 1920s into one of the UK’s major motor racing circuits.

Village
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is a small rural hamlet within the civil parish of Shoreham in the of , England. It borders east of & 3.5 miles south of , adjacent to the Kent border with , within the constituency of .

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in the civil parish of Shoreham, in the Sevenoaks district, in the English county of .

Shoreham

Latitude
51.3337° or 51° 20′ 1″ north
Longitude
0.1789° or 0° 10′ 44″ east
Population
800
Elevation
187 feet (57 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SHO
Open location code
9F3285MH+FG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 250968494
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2637917
Wiki­data ID
Q2257157
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Shoreham” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Շորհամ, Քենթ”
  • Basque: “Shoreham (Kent)”
  • Basque: “Shoreham”
  • Bengali: “শোরহ্যাম”
  • Catalan: “Shoreham”
  • Cebuano: “Shoreham”
  • Chinese: “肖勒姆”
  • Dutch: “Shoreham”
  • French: “Shoreham”
  • German: “Shoreham”
  • Greek: “Σόρχαμ, Κεντ”
  • Gujarati: “શોરહામ”
  • Hebrew: “שורהאם, קנט”
  • Irish: “Shoreham”
  • Italian: “Shoreham (Kent)”
  • Italian: “Shoreham”
  • Japanese: “シャーハム”
  • Japanese: “ショーハム”
  • Kannada: “ಶೋರ್ಹಮ್”
  • Korean: “쇼햄”
  • Ladin: “Shoreham”
  • Lithuanian: “Šorhemas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Shoreham”
  • Persian: “شورهام، کنت”
  • Polish: “Shoreham”
  • Portuguese: “Shoreham”
  • Russian: “Шорхэм”
  • Spanish: “Shoreham”
  • Swedish: “Shoreham, Kent”
  • Swedish: “Shoreham”
  • Tamil: “ஷோரேஹம்”
  • Telugu: “షోరెహామ్”
  • Turkish: “Shoreham, Kent”
  • Urdu: “شوریہام”
  • Welsh: “Shoreham, Caint”
  • Welsh: “Shoreham”

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