St Margaret's at Cliffe buildings [3]

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St Margaret's at Cliffe buildings [3]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 12 Sep 2021

The former Red Lion public house which closed circa 2015. Constructed circa 1825 replacing an earlier building. Built of flint with red brick dressings and tile hung with a tile roof, extended with white brick under a slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1070068 St Margaret’s at Cliffe is a coastal village some 3 miles northeast of Dover. The village is the place in Britain that is nearest to the coast of France, 18 miles distant. The area has been settled since Anglo-Saxon times, and the village became a high class resort in the nineteenth century. The area has always been at the front line of cross Channel conflicts.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.154925
Longitude
1.370763