Great Stour
Great Stour is a river in Westbere, City of Canterbury, England. Great Stour is situated nearby to the village Hersden, as well as near the locality Westbere Marshes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve and Church of All Saints.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sturry and Fordwich.
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.
Hersden
Village
Photo: My another account, CC0.
Hersden is a village east of Canterbury in Kent, South East England. It was established as a planned coalmining village in the 1920s and is on the A28 road between Canterbury and the Isle of Thanet.
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
51.31° or 51° 18′ 36″ northLongitude
1.1692° or 1° 10′ 9″ eastOpen location code
9F338569+2MOpenStreetMap ID
way 197492789OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=river
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