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Cedar Close, BIRCHINGTON, CT7 9DX

The pedestrian crossing is closed and traffic is queuing due to roadworks on the Canterbury Road.

Two planning applications were submitted to Thanet District Council. One was refused permission by the council and the other was withdrawn by the applicant.

A cul-de-sac accessed from Canterbury Road (A28).

Number 199 Canterbury Road was built in the mid 19th century. Constructed of brown brick with the roof hidden behind a parapet. There is a Doric portico. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1341506 Birchington-on-Sea is a seaside village some 7 miles east of Herne Bay and some 3½ miles west of Margate. There is evidence of occupation from the Iron Age. As a resort, the village has a tourism based economy, with hotels, caravan parks and leisure attractions. Many retirees make the village their home.

The plaque on the tower reads "Methodist Chapel 1830". To the right of the picture is a building with another plaque reading "Wesleyan Schoolroom 1928".

Birchington Methodist Church, Canterbury Road, was built in 1830. Constructed of brick under a slate roof. Crenelated with a clock tower. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1088986 Birchington-on-Sea is a seaside village some 7 miles east of Herne Bay and some 3½ miles west of Margate. There is evidence of occupation from the Iron Age. As a resort, the village has a tourism based economy, with hotels, caravan parks and leisure attractions. Many retirees make the village their home.

The Smugglers Restaurant at number 212 Canterbury Road was built in the late 17th century. Constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings under a tile roof with shaped Dutch gables. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1203373 Birchington-on-Sea is a seaside village some 7 miles east of Herne Bay and some 3½ miles west of Margate. There is evidence of occupation from the Iron Age. As a resort, the village has a tourism based economy, with hotels, caravan parks and leisure attractions. Many retirees make the village their home.

Off Albion Road is a small pay-and-display car park serving Garnett's garden centre where I pictured the old tungsten lamp post and Brills DIY centre next door. An alleyway forks just to the right of the photograph from Yew Tree Gardens off Canterbury Road, one prong of the fork leading into this car park and the other leading into the nearby park, also off Albion Road. The real reason I took this photo, however, was the floodlights that light the car park (about the only interesting things in this car park), which are rather shrouded in the tree. They are mounted on an old Stewart and Lloyd column from the 1950s, meaning an older lantern was probably installed here before the car park authority butchered the column and installed these horrible modern floodlights on it. That tree could really do with some pruning too, as the floodlights don't do a very good job at lighting the car park being so buried in it! View taken looking east-northeast.