Shorncliffe Military Cemetery

Shorncliffe Military Cemetery is a cemetery in Hythe, Shepway District, England. Shorncliffe Military Cemetery is situated nearby to the ruins Shorncliffe Redoubt, as well as near Martello Tower No. 9.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shorncliffe Redoubt and Martello Tower No. 9.

Shorncliffe Redoubt

Ruins

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Shorncliffe Redoubt is a British Napoleonic earthwork fort. The site is approximately 300 feet by 300 feet and is situated on the Kentish Coast in Sandgate, Kent. Shorncliffe Redoubt is situated 630 feet east of Shorncliffe Military Cemetery.

Martello Tower No. 9

Tower

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Martello Tower No. 9 is situated 830 feet southwest of Shorncliffe Military Cemetery.

Martello Tower No. 8

Residential building

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Martello Tower No. 8 is a residential building, which is situated 990 feet southeast of Shorncliffe Military Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Seabrook and Sandgate.

Seabrook

Village

Seabrook is a coastal village in the civil parish of Hythe, in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England, lying on the coast of the English Channel between Sandgate and Hythe.

Sandgate

Village

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Sandgate is a village in the Folkestone and Hythe Urban Area in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. It had a population of 4,225 at the 2001 census.

Cheriton

Suburb

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Cheriton is a northern suburb of Folkestone, in the Folkestone and Hythe, in the county of Kent, England. It is the location of the English terminal of the Channel Tunnel as well as of the major army barracks of Shorncliffe Camp.

Shorncliffe Military Cemetery

Type: Cemetery
Description: cemetery in Sandgate, Kent, England, UK
Categories: war cemetery, Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained cemetery, and burial
Location: Hythe, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.07582° or 51° 4′ 33″ north

Longitude

1.12714° or 1° 7′ 38″ east

Open location code

9F3334GG+8V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 23915064

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

Wikidata ID

Q117482198

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