Whitstable
Whitstable is a town on the north coast of Kent in southeast England. It's famous for its oysters, and grew up in the 18th and 19th centuries as a fishing port, general harbour and seaside resort.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Whitstable railway station and Whitstable Museum and Gallery.
Whitstable railway station
Railway station
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Whitstable railway station is on the Ramsgate branch of the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Whitstable, Kent. It is 59 miles 6 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Faversham and Chestfield & Swalecliffe.
Whitstable Museum and Gallery
Museum
Whitstable Museum is a heritage centre in Whitstable, Kent, displaying Invicta, one of the world's oldest steam engines, the history of the local oyster trade, and historical diving equipment.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tankerton and Seasalter.
Tankerton
Village
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Tankerton is a suburb of Whitstable in Kent in south-east England. It was designed in the late 19th century as the train network brought holidaymakers to the sea. It gives its name to a ward of Canterbury City Council.
Seasalter
Village
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Seasalter is a village in the Canterbury district, on the north coast of Kent, England, between Whitstable and Faversham, facing the Isle of Sheppey across the estuary of the River Swale, 6 miles north of Canterbury.
Chestfield
Village
Chestfield is a village in the Canterbury District of Kent, England. The parish is centred 0.5 miles from the sea on the north coast of Kent, between the towns of Whitstable and Herne Bay.
Whitstable
- Type: Town with 30,200 residents
- Description: town in Kent, England
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3606° or 51° 21′ 38″ northLongitude
1.0241° or 1° 1′ 27″ eastPopulation
30,200Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WTSOpen location code
9F33926F+7JOpenStreetMap ID
node 21318877OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Whitstable” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وايتستابل”
- Arabic: “ويستبول”
- Asturian: “Whitstable”
- Basque: “Whitstable”
- Belarusian: “Уітстабл”
- Catalan: “Whitstable”
- Cebuano: “Whitstable”
- Chinese: “惠斯塔布”
- Chinese: “惠特斯特布尔”
- Chinese: “惠特斯特布爾”
- Chinese: “惠茨特布尔”
- Chinese: “惠茨特布爾”
- Croatian: “Whitstable”
- Czech: “Whitstable”
- Danish: “Whitstable”
- Dutch: “Whitstable”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وايتستابل”
- Esperanto: “Whitstable”
- Estonian: “Whitstable”
- Finnish: “Whitstable”
- French: “Whitstable”
- German: “Whitstable”
- Irish: “Whitstable”
- Italian: “Whitstable”
- Japanese: “ウィスタブル”
- Japanese: “ウィトスタブル”
- Japanese: “ケント州”
- Japanese: “ホイットスタブル”
- Ladin: “Whitstable”
- Moksha: “Витстабл”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whitstable”
- Persian: “ویتستبل”
- Polish: “Whitstable”
- Romanian: “Whitstable”
- Russian: “Витстабл”
- Russian: “Уитстабл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Whitstable”
- Slovak: “Whitstable”
- Spanish: “Whitstable”
- Swedish: “Whitstable”
- Ukrainian: “Вітстабл”
- Volapük: “Whitstable”
- Welsh: “Whitstable”
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