Beltinge is a low cliff-top suburb of
Herne Bay in
Kent
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,
England
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. It forms the easternmost part of the urban area of Herne Bay and is just west of the small settlement of
Reculver
Reculver is a village and coastal resort about east of Herne Bay on the north coast of Kent in south-east England.
It is in the ward of the same name, in the City of Canterbury district of Kent.
Reculver once occupied a strategic location ...
, which had an important Roman Fort and a channel which served to provide safer passage around what was the '
Isle of Thanet
The Isle of Thanet () is a peninsula forming the easternmost part of Kent, England. While in the past it was separated from the mainland by the Wantsum Channel, it is no longer an island.
Archaeological remains testify to its settlement in an ...
' until the early
Middle Ages
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.
Geography
Beltinge, Bishopstone and Hillborough are the three geographically
contiguous
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eastern localities of Herne Bay, each low density and residential.
Beltinge Cliff describes a large central portion of the gently sloping cliff range. These are the first cliffs east of London. A pedestrian promenade north of this has the Saxon Shore Way, part of the round-Kent coastal long-distance walk. Three nearby flights of steps connect the promenade with the rest of the east of Herne Bay or Beltinge.
Immediately south of these three small areas is Herne Bay's rural fifth, forming a
buffer zone
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Common types of buffer zones are demili ...
which serves to separate the eastern development from the
A299 and the
Chatham Main Line
The Chatham Main Line is a railway line in England that links London VictoriaQuail Map 5 – England South ages 2–13Sept 2002 (Retrieved 14 December 2011) and Dover Priory / Ramsgate, travelling via Medway (of which the town of Chatham is ...
.
See also
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Saxon Shore Way
The Saxon Shore Way is a long-distance footpath in England. It starts at Gravesend, Kent, and traces the coast of South-East England as it was in Roman times as far as Hastings, East Sussex, in total. This means that around Romney Marsh the ...
External links
Herne Bay, Kent
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