Birchington

Worth seeing in and around Birchington

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens

   The Powell-Cotton Museum is situated in Quex Park in Birchington and houses the diverse personal collections of hunter and explorer Percy Powell-Cotton. The museum also contains the collections of Powell-Cotton's two daughters, Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton, who shared their father's passion for collecting.

   1.3 km · museum in Birchington, Kent, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Thanet Coast

   Thanet Coast is an 816.9-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the coast between Whitstable and Ramsgate in Kent. It is a Geological Conservation Review site, and overlaps two Special Area of Conservations.

   1.8 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Kent · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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. It houses the Powell-Cotton Museum, and the Waterloo tower, a secular bell tower.

   1.6 km · UK historic house museum in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Birchington

Airports

London Stansted (STN), 93 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 107 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 111 km

Stations

Westgate-on-Sea railway station, 2.3 km · Birchington-on-Sea railway station, 300 m

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  100 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £10–14
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• Luton, Luton → Birchington

  132 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £16–21
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