Richborough
in Kent of England, United Kingdom
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Kent International Airport (2 mi) - Lydd Airport (30 mi)
- Southend Airport (33 mi)
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Calais-Dunkerque Airport (36 mi) - Rochester Airport (37 mi)
- Le Touquet-Côte d'Opale Airport (56 mi)
- Wethersfield Airport (58 mi)
- London Stansted Airport (62 mi)
- RAF Honington (75 mi)
- RAF Mildenhall (81 mi)
- RAF Lakenheath (83 mi)
- Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church (Unesco heritage, 12 mi)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Unesco heritage, 47 mi)
- Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church (Unesco heritage, 54 mi)
- Tower of London (Unesco heritage, 57 mi)
- Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (Unesco heritage, 67 mi)
- Fortifications of Vauban (Unesco heritage, 94 mi)
- Amiens Cathedral (Unesco heritage, 106 mi)
- London Club Golf Club (Golf course, 4 mi)
- Canterbury Golf Club (Golf course, 10 mi)
- Herne Bay Golf Club (Golf course, 10 mi)
- Littlestone Warren Golf Club (Golf course, 28 mi)
- Littlestone Golf Club (Golf course, 28 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 51.311 and 1.349 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 51° 18' 37" and E 1° 20' 57"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Pound - GBP
- Spoken languages:
- English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 02:37 AM (Saturday)
- Timezone: Europe/London
- UTC/GMT offset: 0 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 7:15 am and 4:03 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -44.033 and -176.367 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Ouwenga - References
- This place on Wikipedia
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to United Kingdom.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning United Kingdom. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Explore Richborough
Richborough in Kent (England) is a city in United Kingdom about 65 mi (or 105 km) east of London, the country's capital.
Local time in Richborough is now 02:37 AM (Saturday). The local timezone is named Europe / London with an UTC offset of zero hours. We know of 11 airports in the vicinity of Richborough, of which 3 are larger airports. The closest airport in United Kingdom is Kent International Airport in a distance of 2 mi (or 4 km), North. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in United Kingdom is Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church in a distance of 12 mi (or 19 km), West. Also, if you like golfing, there are multiple options in driving distance. If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Ashford, Calais, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Southend-on-Sea and Leigh-on-Sea. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 10°C / 50 °F
| Morning Temperature | 6°C / 42 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 10°C / 50 °F |
| Night Temperature | 10°C / 49 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 70% |
| Air Pressure | 1020 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 8 km/h (5 mph) from East |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
| General Conditions | Light rain |
Sunday, 17th of November 2024
9°C (48 °F)
6°C (42 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Monday, 18th of November 2024
11°C (51 °F)
12°C (53 °F)
Moderate rain, fresh breeze, overcast clouds.
Tuesday, 19th of November 2024
5°C (42 °F)
3°C (37 °F)
Light rain, fresh breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Holiday Inn Express RAMSGATE - MINSTER
The Royal Harbour
TRAVELODGE RAMSGATE SEAFRONT
The Blazing Donkey
Alpha Hostel
Comfort Inn Ramsgate
TRAVELODGE MARGATE WESTWOOD
Margate
BELL HOTEL
Ramsgate (Manston Airport)
Videos from this area
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Ron & Ed go to Manston
One cold January day myself and Ed Burt set off for Manston Airport in Kent. We left Southend where most of the snow had melted, only to find that in Kent, the snow still lay around! Just 28...
Lancaster Bomber @ Manston Airport Kent
Will once again apologize for poor quality as filmed via Cell phone although its become incredibly jerky since I uploaded on to here and with the hurricane conditions but just enjoy the aircraft...
Antonov 124 at Manston
Masive Antonov cargo aircraft at Manston airport.
Learjet45
Learjet45 at Manston in Kent, this is me having my OPC done.
Manston 1955 F-86 F-100 USAF SAC
Home Footage of Manston in 1955 by a American Tech Rep. During the Cold War of the 1950s, the United States Air Force used Manston as a Strategic Air Command base for its fighter and ...
FSX Flying with a Pilot - 0001 First Circuit
It's an overcast day with a poor horizon--not ideal for our first flight together, but all we are going to do is a quick circuit from Manston (EGMH) in the UK. Circuits at Manston are left-handed...
FSX Flying with a Pilot - 0007 Radio Navigation
Real-world pilots navigate using VHF Omni-directional Rangefinders (VORs). They define the start and end of most airways and break any flight into a series of easily manageable 'legs'. If we...
My first cirquit in the Learjet45
Nov 2008 fresh back from initial type training in Dallas, this is the 1st of 6 cirquits requred to finish the type training.
Minster to the sea 29-4-2011
minster to the sea,follow the Great Stour through Sandwich past the seal colony and along the coast to sandwich bay.
michal urbaniak samba miko
michal urbaniak samba miko from the album serenade for the city 1980.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Battle of Wippedesfleot
The Battle of Wippedesfleot was a battle in 466 between the Anglo-Saxons, led by Hengest, and the Britons. It is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle thus: 465: Her Hengest 7 Æsc gefuhton uuiþ Walas neah Wippedesfleote 7 þær . xii. wilisce aldormenn ofslogon, 7 hiera þegn an þær wearþ ofslægen, þam wæs noma Wipped. 465: Here Hengest and Æsc fought together against Welsh (= Britons) near Wippedesfleot and there slew 12 Welsh leaders, and one of their thanes was slain, whose name was Wipped.
Prince's Golf Club, Sandwich
Prince's Golf Club, Sandwich is a links golf course located in Sandwich in Kent in South East England. Prince's is immediately adjacent to the more famous Royal St George's golf club, and both clubs lie on the same stretch of coastline as nearby Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club. Prince's was completed late in 1906 as an 18-hole course, and was the first course designed to counter the significantly longer Haskell ball. Club captain A.J.
South Thanet (UK Parliament constituency)
South Thanet is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Laura Sandys, a Conservative.
Sandwich Bay, Kent
Sandwich Bay is a long sweeping inlet of the sea between Ramsgate and Deal, on the east coast of Kent, England. The coastal area consists of sand flats with their associated salt marshes and coastal sand dunes. The Sandwich Flats stretch for about five miles (8 km) along the coast. The coastal habitats are of very high ecological importance. Most of the bay bears national and international nature conservation designations.
Monk's Wall nature reserve
The Monk's Wall nature reserve is located a short distance from the quay in Sandwich, Kent and is ideal for seeing wild duck and other wildlife in a wetland habitat. The reserve was opened by celebrity bird-watcher Bill Oddie in May 2000. Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust proposed the design and a management plan which included modifications to ditches and control of water levels to create ecological conditions that attract wetland species of plants, animals and birds.
Hugin (longship)
The Hugin is a reconstructed Viking longship that is located at Pegwell Bay in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The boat was built in Denmark from where it was sailed by 53 Danes to England in 1949. The ship landed at Viking Bay in Kent, before being moved to its current site. It was a gift from the Danish government in commemoration of the 1500th anniversary of the arrival of Hengist and Horsa to the country in 449. In 2005 the ship underwent repairs The ship is a replica of the Gokstad.
Richborough Power Station
Richborough power station was a power station close to the mouth of the River Stour near Sandwich, on the east coast of Kent. It operated from 1962 to 1996; the towers were demolished in 2012. It was built on land within the Port of Richborough but being on the northern edge its site lies mostly within the neighbouring parish of Minster, Kent. BFL Management Ltd, the current owners of the site plan to bring it back into use as the £750 million Richborough Energy Park.
St Augustine's Cross
St Augustine's Cross is a stone memorial in Kent, in a fenced enclosure on the south side of Cottington Road, west of Cliffs End, in Pegwell Bay, Thanet, about 2 miles west of Ramsgate, 3 miles north of Richborough Roman Fort, and 12 miles east of Canterbury, in the parish of Minster. The cross was erected in 1884 to commemorate the arrival of St Augustine in England in AD 597.
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Richborough.
This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
Portus Ritupis, Rutupiæ, Richborough
