Horse Sands
Horse Sands is in Oare, Swale District, England. Horse Sands is situated nearby to the village Harty, as well as near the locality Nagden Marshes.Places of Interest
Highlights include Oare Marshes and Church of St Thomas the Apostle.
Oare Marshes
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oare Marshes is a 71.4-hectare Local Nature Reserve north of Faversham in Kent. It is owned and managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. It is part of The Swale Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, National Nature Reserve, Ramsar internationally important wetland site, Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds, and Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Church of St Thomas the Apostle
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Thomas the Apostle in Harty on the Isle of Sheppey in the county of Kent is a Grade II* listed building. The date of founding cannot be fixed with certainty.
Cleve Hill Solar Park
Power station
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cleve Hill Solar Park is a photovoltaic power station on the Graveney marshes between Faversham and Whitstable, Kent in the UK. It started operations in July 2025.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Faversham and Leysdown-on-Sea.
Faversham
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Faversham is a town in the English county of Kent, UK. The history of the town can be traced back 2000 years to Roman times. Explosives were a major local industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Leysdown-on-Sea
Village
Graveney
Village
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Graveney is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Graveney with Goodnestone, in the Swale district, in Kent, England. It is located between Faversham and Whitstable.
Horse Sands
- Type: Wetland
- Category: body of water
- Location: Oare, Swale District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3527° or 51° 21′ 10″ northLongitude
0.9097° or 0° 54′ 35″ eastOpen location code
9F329W35+3VOpenStreetMap ID
way 798818400OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetland
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