Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is industrial town in the Swale district, in Kent, southeast England, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient British trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sittingbourne railway station and Church of All Saints, Murston.
Sittingbourne railway station
Railway station
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Sittingbourne railway station is on the Chatham Main Line and the Sheerness Line in north Kent. It is 44 miles 59 chains down the line from London Victoria.
Church of All Saints, Murston
Church
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of All Saints, Murston, Sittingbourne, is a Church of England parish church in the county of Kent, England. It is notable due to its architect, William Burges, and was constructed in 1873–4.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kemsley and Milton Regis.
Kemsley
Village
Kemsley, once a separate village, is now a suburb of Sittingbourne in Kent, England. According to Asserius Menevensis in his contemporary survey, the Danes built a fortress or castle here in 893 at a place called 'Kemsley downe'.
Milton Regis
Locality
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milton Regis is a village in the district of Swale in Kent, England. Former names include Milton-next-Sittingbourne, Milton Royal, Middleton, Midletun and Middletune.
Heart’s Delight
Hamlet
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Heart's Delight is a settlement located to the south of Sittingbourne in Kent, England. Heart's Delight Road, leading to it, has the postal address of Tunstall.
Sittingbourne
- Type: Town with 40,000 residents
- Description: industrial town in Kent, England, United Kingdom
- Category: locality
- Location: Swale District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3397° or 51° 20′ 23″ northLongitude
0.7342° or 0° 44′ 3″ eastPopulation
40,000Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SITOpen location code
9F328PQM+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 668473962OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sittingbourne” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيتينغبورن”
- Asturian: “Sittingbourne”
- Basque: “Sittingbourne”
- Bulgarian: “Ситингбоурне”
- Cebuano: “Sittingbourne”
- Chinese: “錫廷伯恩”
- Chinese: “锡廷伯恩”
- Dutch: “Sittingbourne”
- Finnish: “Sittingbourne”
- French: “Sittingbourne”
- German: “Sittingbourne”
- Hebrew: “סטיבנברג”
- Irish: “Sittingbourne”
- Italian: “Sittingbourne”
- Japanese: “シッティングボーン”
- Ladin: “Sittingbourne”
- Latvian: “Sitingborna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sittingbourne”
- Persian: “سیتینگبورو”
- Polish: “Sittingbourne”
- Romanian: “Sittingbourne”
- Scots: “Sittingbourne”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sittingbourne”
- Slovenian: “Sittingbourne”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیتینقبورو”
- Spanish: “Sittingbourne”
- Swedish: “Sittingbourne”
- Urdu: “سیتینگبورو”
- Volapük: “Sittingbourne”
- Welsh: “Sittingbourne”
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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 “Sittingbourne”. Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.