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Broomfield has seen much housing development in the last two decades, particularly to the west and north of the village. Consequently, the boundary with neighbouring Herne has become blurred. Despite this, there are few shops: aside from the village's post office on Margate Road, there is a mini-supermarket, two takeaways and a hairdresser on ...
At the south east corner of the village are the remains of Hoverlloyd's cross-channel hoverport. Vehicle and passenger carrying hovercraft were operated here from 1969 until 1982. The New East Kent Access Road intersects the village at the same point as the railway line, though here it is in a tunnel, so the effect on the village is minimal.
The parish is situated to the north of Canterbury in Kent. The seaside town of Herne Bay is the other side of the A299 road , Thanet Way that marks the northern boundary of the parish. Greenhill , part of Herne Bay, lies to the west, the parishes of Hoath and Chislet are to the east and Sturry parish is to the South.
The county of Kent has over 400 villages that range from very small to the size of a small town. The latter category includes those that designate themselves towns even though local government is by a civil parish council.
Ebbsfleet is a hamlet near Ramsgate, Kent, at the head of Pegwell Bay. Historically it was a peninsula on the southern coast of the Isle of Thanet, marking the eastern end of the Wantsum Channel that separated Thanet from the Kentish mainland. It is in the civil parish of Minster-in-Thanet.
[37] [38] The "Old Way" ran from Seaton in Devon to Dover, Kent. Later the eastern part of the Harrow Way become known as the Pilgrims Way, following the canonisation of Thomas Beckett and the establishment of a shrine in Canterbury, Kent. This pilgrimage route ran from Winchester in Hampshire, via Farnham in Surrey, to Canterbury. The western ...
Within the parish boundaries is the linear settlement village centre by the old water mill and two smaller neighbourhoods less than 500m east: . Little Chart Forstal (the term forstal means the land in front of a farm and farmyard; cp Painters Forstal [2]).
Until 1965 it was the junction for the cross-country railway to Hailsham, Polegate and Eastbourne. The parish used to be served by Rotherfield and Mark Cross railway station on the Cuckoo Line which closed in 1965: It was situated adjacent to the B2100 road in the small village of Town Row about one mile east of Rotherfield. The former railway ...