Betteshanger Park
Betteshanger Park is a park near Deal, in Kent, England. It covers the site of a former colliery spoil tip.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Cycle sport
- Description: park in Kent, England
- Also known as: “Fowlmead Country Park”
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club and Sandown Castle.
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club
Golf course
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club is an 18-hole links golf course, in the town of Deal in Kent, in southeastern England. The course is often known simply as Deal.
Sandown Castle
Ruins
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandown Castle was an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII in Sandown, Kent, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the strategically important Downs anchorage off the English coast. Sandown Castle is situated 1¼ miles east of Betteshanger Park.
Church of St Nicholas
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Nicholas is situated 1 mile south of Betteshanger Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sholden and Hacklinge.
Sholden
Village
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sholden is a small village adjacent to the seaside town of Deal, lying on the road towards Sandwich in Kent, South East England.
Hacklinge
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hacklinge is a village near Deal in Kent, England. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Northbourne. It lies next to the A258 about halfway between Sandwich and Deal.
Finglesham
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Finglesham is a village in the civil parish of Northbourne, and near Deal in Kent, England, which was the location of the Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery, site of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon archaeology find known as "Finglesham man," as described in 1965 by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes and Hilda Ellis Davidson.
Betteshanger Park
- Categories: park, recreation area, and sports location
- Location: Sholden, Dover District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.23539° or 51° 14′ 7″ northLongitude
1.3749° or 1° 22′ 30″ eastOpen location code
9F3369PF+5XOpenStreetMap ID
way 148852086OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=recreation_groundOpenStreetMap feature
sport=cyclingWikidata ID
Q8565176
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