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Keat Farm Close, HERNE BAY, CT6 6SL

This is what Hillborough Caravan Site looks like today - a housing development with a new roundabout on Reculver Road. It is almost unrecognizable from when my family and I used to spend our summer holidays here from the 70s right through to the 90s. The access road to the site is now a council-owned road called Sanderling Road and has several cul-de-sacs leading off it, whereas of course when the caravan site was opened it was simply a privately owned road and lead to a circular road surrounded by the caravans. The caravan site closed in 1998, probably because of lack of economy, as caravanning as a holiday activity has declined rapidly. I reckon even today it would've had problems in surviving, as I don't think many people could afford the rent for caravanning in these times of the credit crunch. View taken looking south-southeast towards Hillborough.

The long distance path leads from Reculver Road, towards Bishopstone Lane.

Forge House, Reculver Lane, is an 18th century building. Constructed of rendered brick under a tile roof. There is a modern extension on the right. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1084988 Hillborough is a suburb of the town of Herne Bay, a seaside town on the Thames Estuary, some 6 miles north of Canterbury and about 4 miles east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver.

Thatched cottage at the triangular junction of Sweechbridge Road and Reculver Road.

St Mary's Cottage is, probably, 17th century. Now partly stuccoed and partly pebbledashed, all under a thatch roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1336864 Hillborough is a suburb of the town of Herne Bay, a seaside town on the Thames Estuary, some 6 miles north of Canterbury and about 4 miles east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver.