Broadstairs
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Broadstairs is a small town in the county of Kent in southeast England.
Broadstairs is located between Margate and Ramsgate on the Isle of Thanet, the city belongs to the district of Thanet. There are seven bays Viking Bay, Louisa Bay, Dumpton Gap, Botany Bay, Stone Bay, Joss Bay and Kingsgate Bay.
The average temperature is 10.5 ° C in Broadstairs, the rainfall averages 751 mm.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Thomas Russell Crampton (1816-1888), locomotive engineer
- Edward Heath (1916-2005), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970-1974)
- Tommy Bing ( born 1931 ), football player
- Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), composer
- Bruce Robinson ( born 1946 ), actor, screenwriter and director
Connected to the city
In the city of Charles Dickens, a frequent guest, wrote the novel David Copperfield. Dickens spent his long summer holiday in Bleak House (original name: Fort House ), which is situated right on the cliff. The house was a privately run museum until 2004, but had to be closed for economic reasons. The novel Bleak House, Dickens 1852/1853 wrote, owes its name to this very house.
Other prominent visitors were Queen Victoria, who has several times as a child spent their summer holidays in Broadstairs, and the native-born, British Prime Minister Edward Heath.
Views
Beach at Joss Bay Broadstairs in
Cliffs of Kingsgate Bay near Broadstairs