1
The Last Steam Train Through Birchington on Sea
Image: © Rick Ryder
Taken: 27 Jan 2007
0.06 miles
2
Shrine of Our Lady
In garden ,near the carpark of the Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint Benedict, on Minis Road.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 17 Jan 2009
0.08 miles
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Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint Benedict
On Minis Road. Lovely gilding over doorway, glints in sun.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 17 Jan 2009
0.09 miles
4
The church of Our Lady and St. Benedict, Birchington-on-Sea
In March 1908 a plot of land with a cart shed on it was purchased and the shed was adapted to serve as a church; this continued in existence until the 1950s. In 1964 Fr Wilfrid Emery was appointed parish priest with an instruction to build a new church. Using mainly local labour he gradually replaced the old building with a new and taller church in a Romanesque style, possibly to his own design. The sanctuary was finished in 1954, the nave in 1958 and the tower in 1960.
Image: © pam fray
Taken: 7 Feb 2022
0.10 miles
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Birchington-on-Sea station
Looking up the line, it is about eight miles to the next station at Herne Bay.
The station was opened on 5th October 1863 by the Kent Coast Railway (KCR). The KCR was operated by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway (LCDR), which absorbed the KCR on 1st July 1871, and the station was renamed Birchington-on-Sea by the LCDR in October 1878.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 23 Dec 2019
0.12 miles
6
Birchington station looking west
Taken from the station footbridge
Image: © Robert Eva
Taken: 2 Dec 2017
0.12 miles
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Birchington Medical Centre
Converted barn style new building on Minnis Bay.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 20 Feb 2011
0.13 miles
8
Birchington-on-Sea Station
View westwards, towards Faversham, Chatham and London; ex-LC&D London - Ramsgate main line (electrified 1959).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 16 Apr 1963
0.13 miles
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Birchington-on-Sea railway station
Image: © Stacey Harris
Taken: 15 Oct 2010
0.14 miles
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Platform 1 at Birchington-on-Sea station
Looking westwards towards Herne Bay.
Image: © pam fray
Taken: 22 Mar 2009
0.14 miles