Greenhill is an outlying suburb of the coastal town of
Herne Bay
Herne Bay is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in South East England. It is north of Canterbury and east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne, Kent, Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury loca ...
, in
Kent
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in southeast
England
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. The erstwhile
Thanet Way, now renumbered as the
A2990 road, separates Greenhill from Herne Bay.
Greenhill is home to Thornden Wood Primary School for children aged from 4–11 years and
Herne Bay High School for children aged from 11 to 18, a sports college which very recently gained its sports status. Greenhill has its own Gymnastics Club and a wide range of community groups and organisations.
Residents also set up the first Partners and Communities Together panel, PACT, in Kent and were the first to launch a dedicated website. The panel is currently trying to gauge public opinion on the subject of having Greenhill officially reclassified as a village in its own right instead of part of Herne Bay.
References
External links
Greenhill PACT
Populated coastal places in Kent
Herne Bay, Kent
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