Walpole Bay
Walpole Bay is a beach in Thanet District, Kent, England. Walpole Bay is situated nearby to the park The Oval Gardens, as well as near the marketplace Cliftonville Farmers Market.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Shell Grotto and Walpole Bay Tidal Pool.
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 2,700 feet southwest of Walpole Bay.
Walpole Bay Tidal Pool
Swimming area
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Walpole Bay Tidal Pool is a swimming area, which is situated 1,400 feet east of Walpole Bay.
Church of St Paul
Church
Photo: No Swan So Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church of St Paul is situated 1,700 feet southwest of Walpole Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cliftonville and Palm Bay.
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.
Palm Bay
Quarter
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Palm Bay is an area of Cliftonville, a suburb of Margate in Kent, England. The area is predominantly housing, but also has recreational land for the general public.
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.
Walpole Bay
- Type: Beach
- Category: landform
- Location: Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.39261° or 51° 23′ 33″ northLongitude
1.39833° or 1° 23′ 54″ eastOpen location code
9F3399VX+28OpenStreetMap ID
way 93756926OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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