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Herne Bay / h ɜːr n / is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in South East England.It is 6 miles (10 km) north of Canterbury and 4 miles (6 km) east of Whitstable.It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury.
Brand new area code allocation post-BigNumber for a new town, chosen to be significantly different from the area codes of the adjacent areas of Gravesend and Dartford. [14] 01988 — Wigtown (WT8) 01989 — Ross-on-Wye, Wye Valley (WV9) 01990 — unused; 0990 was Wentworth (WW0) – numbers were transferred to 0344 [notes 14]
GSS code: E10000016: ITL: UKJ42: ... Kent is a county in the South East England region, ... Canterbury Cathedral is the United Kingdom's metropolitan cathedral; it ...
The Mid Kent Shopping Centre opened in 1969 [5] and includes a Waitrose supermarket and smaller shops. Down the hill from St Laurence's Church is the River Medway, Allington Lock and Allington Sluice. There is a footpath over the lock. Below the lock, the Medway becomes tidal. On the other bank is the Malta Inn, and Kent Life museum.
It keeps administrative and some traditional links with Sevenoaks and Kent but it is heavily associated with south east London due to the expansion of that area close to Swanley's borders. The majority of housing development took place from the post-war period to late 1980s. A new fire station was opened in 1962, and new post office two years ...
Horsmonden (/ ˈ h ɔːr z m ə n ˌ d ɛ n / ⓘ HORZ-mən-DEN) [3] is a village in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The village is located in the Weald of Kent. It is situated on a road leading from Maidstone to Lamberhurst, three miles north of the latter place. The nearest railway station is Paddock Wood.
Isle of Grain (Old English Greon, meaning gravel) is a village and the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula within the district of Medway in Kent, south-east England. [2] No longer an island and now forming part of the peninsula, the area is almost all marshland and is a major habitat for diverse wetland birds. [3]
The postal counties of the United Kingdom, now known as former postal counties, [1] were postal subdivisions in routine use by the Royal Mail until 1996. [2] The purpose of the postal county – as opposed to any other kind of county – was to aid the sorting of mail by differentiating between like-sounding post towns.