Dreamland Margate
Dreamland Margate is an amusement park and entertainment centre based on a traditional English seaside funfair located in Margate, Kent, England. The site of the park was first used for amusement rides in 1880, although the Dreamland name was not used until 1920 when the park's Grade II* listed Scenic Railway wooden rollercoaster was opened.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ruth Johnston, CC BY 2.0.
- Email: customer.services@dreamland.co.uk
- Type: Theme park
- Description: Seaside amusement park in Margate, England
- Address: Marine Terrace, Margate, Thanet, CT9 1XJ
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Scenic Railway and Margate railway station.
Scenic Railway
Roller coaster
Photo: Peet13, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Scenic Railway is a wooden roller coaster located at the Dreamland Amusement Park in Margate, United Kingdom. It first opened in 1920 and is the oldest roller coaster in the UK.
Margate railway station
Railway station
Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Margate railway station serves the town of Margate in Thanet, Kent, England. It is 73 miles 69 chains down the line from London Victoria. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern. Margate railway station is situated 1,300 feet west of Dreamland Margate.
Shell Grotto
Photo: Gernot Keller, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Shell Grotto, sometimes called the Shell Temple, is an ornate underground shell grotto in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, England. The grotto, which has a passageway and main room, was dug out from chalk, a soft limestone common in the region. Shell Grotto is situated 2,800 feet east of Dreamland Margate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Margate and Westbrook.
Margate
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Margate is a seaside resort on the north Kent coast, with a population in 2021 of more than 64,000. It's suffered the usual decline of English seaside towns but its beach is still thronged on warm summer weekends, and there are several places of interest for cold wet days.
Westbrook
Suburb
Photo: JoshTilley, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Westbrook is a Victorian seaside resort on the Thanet peninsula in the southeast corner of England. It is the westernmost part of Margate and is part of the ribbon development of the north Kent coast. Westgate-on-Sea lies to the west.
Cliftonville
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cliftonville is a coastal area of Margate in the Thanet district of Kent, England. It includes the Palm Bay estate, built in the 1930s with wide avenues and detached and semi-detached houses with driveways, garages and gardens.
Dreamland Margate
- Categories: amusement park, local business, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.38516° or 51° 23′ 7″ northLongitude
1.37785° or 1° 22′ 40″ eastOperator
Sands Heritage LimitedOpen location code
9F3399PH+34OpenStreetMap ID
way 370175525OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=theme_parkOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q3039291
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Dreamland Margate” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Dreamland Margate”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دريملاند مارجات”
- French: “Dreamland Margate”
- German: “Dreamland Margate”
- Russian: “Dreamland Margate”
- Spanish: “Dreamland Margate”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dreamland Margate”. Photo: Ruth Johnston, CC BY 2.0.