Hougham Without is a civil parish between
Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...
and
Folkestone
Folkestone ( ) is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England. The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs at a valley between two cliffs. It was an important harbour and shipping port for most of the 19th and 20t ...
in southeast
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. The main settlements are the villages of Church Hougham and West Hougham, collectively known simply as "Hougham". Great Hougham Court Farm is located to the south of the two villages, near the
Dover transmitting station
The Dover transmitting station is a facility for broadcasting and telecommunications, located at West Hougham, near Dover, Kent (). It has a highhttp://www.dover.gov.uk planning no DOV/09/00435 guyed steel lattice mast of triangular cross sec ...
. The
Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel (french: Tunnel sous la Manche), also known as the Chunnel, is a railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (Kent, England, UK) with Coquelles ( Hauts-de-France, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. ...
runs underground just south of West Hougham and directly under both Church Hougham and the Farm.
See also
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Hougham Battery
Hougham Battery is a World War II coastal defence battery built in 1941 between Dover and Folkestone in southeast England.
It is on the cliff-edge between Abbot's Cliff and Shakespeare Cliff.
The battery is equipped with three 8-inch (203&nbs ...
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Lydden Spout Battery
Lydden Spout Battery is a World War II coastal defence battery built in 1941 west of Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English ...
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St. Radegund's Abbey
St. Radegund's Abbey at Bradsole was a medieval monastic house in the parish of Hougham Without near Dover in southeast England. It was dedicated to Radegund, the sixth-century Merovingian princess, who, once married to the unsavory King Chl ...
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Samphire Hoe
Samphire Hoe is a country park situated west of Dover in Kent in southeast England. The park was created by using 4.9 million cubic metres of chalk marl from the Channel Tunnel excavations and is found at the bottom of a section of the White Cl ...
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Alkham Valley
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The Alkham Valley is in the Kent Downs (the eastern part of the North Downs), an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in South East Kent, England. The valley lies between Folkestone and Dover.
The Valley is a dry valley
A dry valley may de ...
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Hougham church illustrations
Villages in Kent
Dover District
Civil parishes in Kent
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