Sandgate is a village in the

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 ...

and

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in the Folkestone and Hythe district of

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, England. It had a population of 4,225 at the 2001 census.Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Usual Resident Population (KS01) : Folkestone Sandgate Ward''
Retrieved 22 August 2010 It is the site of

Sandgate Castle Sandgate Castle is an artillery fort originally constructed by Henry VIII in Sandgate in Kent, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect England against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and ...

, a

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. H.G. Wells lived at Spade House, and it is also the birthplace of comedian

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. Sandgate is the location of the

Shorncliffe Redoubt Shorncliffe Redoubt is a British Napoleonic earthwork fort. The site is approximately 300 feet by 300 feet and is situated on the Kentish Coast in Sandgate, Kent. History In 1793, the French Revolution reached its climax when the Revolutionar ...

, a

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-era earthwork fort associated with Sir John Moore and the 95th Regiment of Foot, known as the

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. St Paul's Church lies next to the Saga building, which is built on the site of Embrook House. Sandgate was an

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from 1894 to 1934 (having previously been part of Cheriton parish). It was added to

in 1934. In 2004, the village re-acquired

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

status. The parish shares the boundaries of Folkestone Sandgate

ward Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...

, at . The Sandgate branch railway line was opened in 1874 and closed to passengers in 1951. Little of the infrastructure now remains, but it is still possible to see the remains of a tall overbridge at the bottom of Hospital Hill. The

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song "The Sea" is written about the beachside bar 'Bar Vasa'. Sandgate Hotel appeared on the

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programme ''

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'' on 27 February 2006. Other pubs include The Ship Inn, The Providence Inne, The Clarendon Inn and The Royal Norfolk Hotel. The

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...

suburb with the same name is named after the town. There is also a Brisbane suburb called Shorncliffe, which is adjacent to Sandgate.

Sister cities

Sangatte Sangatte (; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department on the northern coast of France on the English Channel. The name is of Flemish origin, meaning hole or gap in the sand. Engineering Sangatte is the location for the Channel Tunnel's Fr ...

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Notable people

Charles Daniel-Tyssen Charles Amherst Daniel-Tyssen (11 December 1856 – 26 December 1940) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman. The son of Francis Samuel Daniel-Tyssen and his wife, Eliza Julia Knight-Bruce, he was born in December 1856 at Sandgate, ...

(1856-1940), cricketer and clergyman *

(1922-1980), comedy actress

References

External links

Sandgate Website

Sandgate Parish Council
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