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Above it, Welcome to Broadstairs especially if you are Chinese Lantern café where the proprietress Sonia car park and then bear left and walk up Vere plaque on the wall to commemorate the Olympic Kingsgate Castle was built to house his visiting us for the first time. We are very proud of Ramsay was murdered in 1927. This is now home Road, at the top of which you will see Athletes who stayed there before leaving for the servants and horses. Kingsgate Bay was named our quintessential, family, seaside town and hope to the Sailing Club. Pierremont Hall (7). Designed by Samuel games in 1924. Cross over after a forced landing there by King Charles II in you enjoy our Trail taking you on a wander past At the end of Eldon Place look up Harbour Street Pepys Cockerell and built in 1792 by Thomas onto the Promenade and 1763. some of our historic and interesting places. to the Old Curiosity Shop, originally two cottages Forsythe. It knew various owners until its sale in you will see the Bandstand Turn left by the castle into Convent Road, to We invite you to start at Broadstairs with a well which served the houses of Union 1896 to Leonard Posnett who used it as a in the Victoria Gardens return to Broadstairs via St Peter’s. Information Kiosk which is on the promenade Square (3) and may well have been built in 1588. school. Most of the original 30 acres of land which were opened in outside The Royal Albion Hotel. This area of the Continue down Harbour Street. On your right is were developed as housing and the building and 1892 by Princess Louise, Alternatively turn left at Joss Bay into Elmwood prom is known as The Parade and our the Palace Cinema built in 1911 as a museum to remaining park were sold to the Urban District daughter of Queen Avenue, up past North Foreland Golf Club and Information Kiosk which is run by volunteers is house the Armoury collection of Sir Guy Laking, Council in 1927. Victoria. turn right into Flemish-inspired Reading Street. open from April until the end of October every eminent armour expert and son of the physician to Victoria stayed at Pierremont Hall in 1829 and Trinity Square with its tiny cottages is one of the year. King Edward VII, and then called York Gate Hall. the single storey building was once the royal Towards the sea is The Jubilee Clock Tower (9) smallest in the country. Lord Northcliffe lived in music room. which commemorated Queen Victoria’s Diamond the White House and the row of cottages on the A few doors along to the left the Dickens House Pass through York Gate (4) built by George From here you can follow the coastal path Jubilee; destroyed by fire in the 1970’s, its seaward side was built on the old cemetery for Museum (1) was the home of Mary Pearson Culmer in 1540 to defend the town against around the Isle of Thanet and visit 4 more At the top of Vere Road you may choose to turn replacement celebrated the Silver Jubilee of sailors killed in the St James Day battle off North Strong upon whom Dickens based his character privateers. The original structure had a portcullis beautiful bays of Broadstairs, including Botany right towards St Peter’s (one mile – St Peter’s Queen Elizabeth II. Foreland in 1666. Betsy Trotwood and stout wooden gates. Bay in Kingsgate, or continue your walk along Extension below). To your right you will see Grand mansions; in David Look right to see The Pavilion which was built in the Eastern promenade to Joss Bay and originally the Grand Hotel (10), built in 1882, Turn left into Beacon Road, cross the railway Copperfield. 1933 by public subscription and stands on the site Elmwood Avenue, which leads to Reading Street This route will take you past The Crampton which housed one hundred rooms, a billiard hall, bridge and fork right into Church Street, through There has been of White’s Shipbuilders where manywooden ships and St Peter’s (Approx. 2.5 miles – See below). Tower Museum (8) which is a memorial to stables and a coach house. to St Peter’s, which during the Middle Ages was a dwelling on of up to 400 tons were constructed. Or turn back down the footpath and turn right Thomas Crampton who brought a water system a busy farming community and far more this site since away from the harbour, then right at the Old to the town and designed steam locomotives; it At this point you may decide to continue your important than the nearby village of Bradstow, Tudor times and Beyond the Pavilion stands the original building of Curiosity Shop into Union Square; named also houses the Broadstairs Stagecoach. stroll to Dumpton and Ramsgate (approx. 2 now Broadstairs. the current Station House which, in Napoleonic times, was the following the Union of England and Scotland in Alternatively enter Pierremont Park by the War miles) there is also a coastal walk through to The Mockett’s Farm House by the Village museum houses HQ of the Coast Blockade. News of the victory at 1707 and an area steeped in smuggling legend. Memorial and keeping Pierremont Hall to your Ramsgate harbour and Town. Green dates from 1682. Turn left into the High many artefacts Waterloo was learnt here first in 1815 when Major Out of Union Square, right up Harbour Street, left right, follow the path down through the park and Or walk back along he Promenade passing on Street opposite the church and on the left is of the great Percy was sent by the Duke of Wellington straight into Albion Street, and almost immediately cross out through the entrance onto Queens Road. your left the plinth to Uncle Mack Nuckell’s Almshouse, built in 1753 as the Victorian author. from the battlefield to report the news to the King. over into Alexandra Road. Cross the road and turn left into York Avenue and commemorating the seaside entertainer parish workhouse. Another major industry was A few doors He landed here with the captured French Eagle continue on to H Summerson who entertained visitors here from smuggling, and many tunnels from the coast ran along is the standard and was fêted all the way to London, Look back across Albion Street at St Mary’s Oscar Road. Half 1895-1948. The plaque was dedicated by inland to cellars in the village. The original Charles Chapel (6), built on the site of Our Lady of way along turn left Annette Mills who appeared on television with Parish Church was constructed in 1070. During Dickens Public Bradstow’s Shrine. This is the oldest structure in into Chandos Road Muffin the Mule who lived in the town. the Napoleonic wars the Church tower was a House at one Broadstairs, dating back to Saxon times. The and then right into You are now at your starting point again. naval signalling station. time the Royal wooden Chapel was rebuilt around 1070 in stone Chandos Square. Kent Library and and flint and some of the original structure If you continue KINGSGATE, READING STREET The house known as The Coves was built in the Assembly remains within the current building. For several along Chandos 1769, and is an excellent example of Georgian Rooms. centuries, ships would dip their topsails to the Road just out of the AND ST PETER’S EXTENSION architecture. The ‘Coves’ are probably the caves The Royal Albion originally started life in 1706 as shrine as they passed. After being badly square you will find cut out in the garden which once connected to The Phoenix and renamed in 1805 following the damaged in storms in the 1520s, the building the Blue Plaque on Walk along the coast road and pass the North the seashore by subterranean passages. Battle of Trafalgar. Dickens was a regular was restored for Protestant worship in 1601. the building where Foreland Lighthouse, which was the last Ranelagh Grove is on the right of the High customer and was particularly fond Walk up Alexander Road through the gated area Oliver Postgate manned lighthouse in the country, its keepers Street and was the location for the Ranelagh of the gin sold by the then landlord James known as Culmer’s Land which was used to live. finally leaving in 1998. If you continue past Joss Pleasure Gardens, established in 1818 closing in Ballard. bequeathed to the town by the Culmer Chandos Square is full of flint faced houses and Bay to Kingsgate Bay, you will see the estate of 1852. The Assembly Rooms are now used as causing the house to be renamed Eagle House.