Saint Peters
Thanet is a local government district in Kent, England.
Thanet is a local government district in Kent, England. The council is based in Margate and the district also contains the towns of Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Westgate-on-Sea, along with several villages. It takes its name from the Isle of Thanet, a former island which gradually became connected to the mainland between the 12th and 16th centuries.
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Worth seeing in and around Saint Peters
10 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.
- 01Kingsgate Castle
Kingsgate Castle is a mock castle on the cliffs above Kingsgate Bay, Broadstairs, Kent, England.
4.5 km · mock castle in Kingsgate, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Shell Grotto
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.
2.4 km · an ornate subterranean passageway in Margate, Kent, UK. Grade I listed building · Wikipedia - 03Turner Contemporary
Turner Contemporary is an art gallery in Margate, Kent, England, intended as a contemporary arts space and catalyst for the regeneration of the town. The title commemorates the association of the town with noted landscape painter J. M. W. Turner, who went to school there, and visited throughout his life.
2.7 km · art gallery in Kent, England · Wikipedia - 04Dreamland Margate
Dreamland Margate is an amusement park and entertainment centre based on a traditional English seaside funfair located in Margate, Kent, England. The site of the park was first used for amusement rides in 1880, although the Dreamland name was not used until 1920 when the park's Grade II* listed Scenic Railway wooden rollercoaster was opened.
2.2 km · Seaside amusement park in Margate, England · Wikipedia - 05Montefiore Synagogue
The Montefiore Synagogue is the private Orthodox Jewish synagogue and adjacent mausoleum of the late Sir Moses Montefiore, located on Honeysuckle Road, Hereson, in Ramsgate, Kent, England, in the United Kingdom. The private synagogue was completed in 1833 and, together with the mausoleum, was listed as a Grade II* building in 1968.
4.2 km · Synagogue in Kent, England · Wikipedia - 06North Foreland Lighthouse
North Foreland is a chalk headland on the Kent coast of southeast England, specifically in Broadstairs. With the rest of Broadstairs and part of Ramsgate it is the eastern side of Kent's largest peninsula, the Isle of Thanet.
4.4 km · lighthouse at North Foreland, England · Wikipedia - 07St Augustine's Cross
St Augustine's Cross is a stone memorial in Kent, in a fenced enclosure on the south side of Cottington Road, west of Cliffs End, at Pegwell Bay, Thanet, about 2 miles west of Ramsgate, 3 miles north of Richborough Roman Fort, and 12 miles east of Canterbury, in the parish of Minster. The cross was erected in 1884 to commemorate the arrival of St Augustine in England in AD 597.
4.6 km · high cross in Minster, Thanet, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Granville Theatre
The Granville Theatre complex is located in Victoria Parade, Ramsgate, Kent, and is the town's sole multi-purpose entertainment venue. The theatre derived its name from the Granville Hotel, Ramsgate opposite.
4.6 km · theatre and cinema complex in Ramsgate, England · Wikipedia - 09St Augustine's Church
St Augustine's Church or the Shrine of St Augustine of Canterbury is a Roman Catholic church in Ramsgate, Kent. It was the personal church of Augustus Pugin, a nineteenth-century architect, designer, and reformer.
4.6 km · church in Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Church of St Laurence, Ramsgate
St Laurence's Church, also known as St Laurence-in-Thanet, is a Church of England parish church in Ramsgate, Thanet, Kent.
3.5 km · church in Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Saint Peters
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 98 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 105 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 112 km
- Stations
- Manston Airport, 3.8 km · Westgate-on-Sea railway station, 3.5 km · Ramsgate railway station, 3.3 km · Broadstairs railway station, 3.6 km · Margate railway station, 2.2 km
- London → Saint Peters108 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £11–15
- London, Essex → Saint Peters108 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £11–15
- Luton, Luton → Saint Peters139 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £17–22
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Saint Peters
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Saint Peters. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBroadstairs is 2 miles from the channel port of Ramsgate with ferries from Ostend in Belgium (for car passengers/coaches only though - no foot passengers).
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Next door to Saint Peters
- Ramsgatetown in Kent, England, UK2.9 km
- Margatetown in Kent, England2 km
- Broadstairscoastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England4 km
- Westgate-on-Seatown in Thanet, Kent, England3.5 km
- Thanetnon-metropolitan district in Kent, England2.5 km
- Birchingtonvillage in Thanet, north-east Kent, England5.6 km