Powell-Cotton Museum

The Powell-Cotton Museum is situated in Quex Park in Birchington and houses the diverse personal collections of hunter and explorer Percy Powell-Cotton.

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Type: Museum
Description: museum in Birchington, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Also known as: “Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens”
Postal code: CT7 0BH

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Quex House and Quex Park.

Quex Park itself is 250 acres of parkland and gardens plus a further 1500 acres of farmed land, with Quex House and other buildings situated just south-east from Birchington-on-Sea near Margate in Kent, England. Quex Park is situated 1,100 feet east of Powell-Cotton Museum.

Birchington Methodist Chapel

Church

Photo: Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Birchington Methodist Chapel is a church, which is situated 2,800 feet northwest of Powell-Cotton Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Birchington and Westgate-on-Sea.

Birchington

Town

Photo: John Goodall, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Birchington is a village and civil parish in the Thanet district of Kent, England. It had a population of 10,394 at the 2021 census. Although the village's railway station is called Birchington-on-Sea, the village's name is actually Birchington.

Westgate-on-Sea

Town

Photo: Rick Ryder, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of Kent, England. It is within the Thanet local government district and borders the larger seaside resort of Margate.

Garlinge

Suburb

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Garlinge is a village and suburb of Margate, in the Thanet district, in Kent, England, situated 2 miles southwest of the centre of the town. Garlinge is situated 2 miles northeast of Powell-Cotton Museum.

Powell-Cotton Museum

Categories: independent museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Birchington, Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.36679° or 51° 22′ 0″ north

Longitude

1.31444° or 1° 18′ 52″ east

Open location code

9F339887+PQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 896141964

OpenStreetMap feature

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OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q15268337

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Highlights include Jungle Jims and Quex Adventure Golf.

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