Nail Bourne

Nail Bourne is a river in Littlebourne, City of Canterbury, England. Nail Bourne is situated nearby to the village Littlebourne, as well as near Bekesbourne.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bekesbourne railway station and Howletts Wild Animal Park.

Bekesbourne railway station

Railway station

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bekesbourne railway station is on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line; it serves the villages of Bekesbourne and Patrixbourne, in Kent, England. It is sited 64 miles 58 chains down the line from London Victoria, situated between Canterbury East and Adisham.

Howletts Wild Animal Park

Zoo

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Howletts Wild Animal Park in the parish of Bekesbourne, near Canterbury in Kent, was established as a private zoo in 1957 by John Aspinall. In 1962, the House known as Howletts was being restored.

St Vincent of Saragossa Church, Littlebourne

Church

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Vincent of Saragossa's Church is the Church of England parish church of Littlebourne, Kent, England. The parish is part of the Benefice of Littlebourne including Ickham, Wickhambreaux and Stodmarsh. It is a Grade I 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.

Bridge

Village

Photo: JoshTilley, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bridge is a village and civil parish near Canterbury in Kent, South East England. Bridge village is in the Nailbourne valley in a rural setting on the old Roman road, Watling Street, formerly the main road between London and Dover.

Nail Bourne

Type: River
Category: body of water
Location: Littlebourne, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.2644° or 51° 15′ 52″ north

Longitude

1.1576° or 1° 9′ 27″ east

Open location code

9F337575+Q2

OpenStreetMap ID

way 197862300

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=river

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