Great Stour
Great Stour is a river in Westbere, City of Canterbury, England. Great Stour is situated near the village Hersden, as well as near the locality Westbere Marshes.Places of Interest
Highlights: Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve and Church of All Saints.
Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
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
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
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
Fordwich is a 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.
Herne
Village
Herne is a village in the civil parish of Herne and Broomfield, in Canterbury district, in the county of Kent, England. It is divided by the Thanet Way from the seaside resort of Herne Bay.
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″ north
Longitude
1.1692° or 1° 10′ 9″ east
Open location code
9F338569+2M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=river
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Places to explore: Hersden and Westbere Marshes.
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Highlights: Great Stour and Tidal Lake.
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