Great Stour
Great Stour is a river in Westbere, City of Canterbury, England. Great Stour is situated nearby to the locality Westbere Marshes, as well as near the village Hersden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve and Sturry railway station.
Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: Rog Frost, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stodmarsh SSSI is a 623.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Stodmarsh, north-east of Canterbury in Kent. Parts of it are a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, a National Nature Reserve, a Ramsar internationally important wetland site, a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.
Sturry railway station
Railway station
Photo: david mills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sturry railway station is a railway station Kent, England, serving Sturry and Fordwich on the Ashford to Ramsgate line in Kent. It is 2+1⁄4 miles north east of Canterbury West, and lies either side of a level crossing.
Fordwich Town Hall
Community center
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fordwich Town Hall is a municipal structure in King Street, Fordwich, Kent, England. The structure, which serves as the meeting place of Fordwich Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canterbury and Sturry.
Canterbury
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Canterbury is a cathedral and university city in Kent, in the South East of England. Canterbury Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and hence the Primus inter pares of the primates of each national church in the Anglican Communion and spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England.
Sturry
Village
Photo: pam fray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sturry is a village on the Great Stour river situated 3 miles northeast of Canterbury in Kent. Its large civil parish incorporates several hamlets and, until April 2019, the former mining village of Hersden.
Fordwich
Town
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fordwich is a market town and a civil parish in east Kent, England, on the River Stour, northeast of Canterbury. It is the smallest community by population in Britain with a town council. Its population increased by 30 between 2001 and 2011.
Great Stour
- Type: River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Westbere, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3069° or 51° 18′ 25″ northLongitude
1.1661° or 1° 9′ 58″ eastOpen location code
9F338548+QCOpenStreetMap ID
way 197492786OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=river
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