TURNER AND DICKENS WALK The Turner and Dickens walk connects and Broadstairs. It is named in recognition of the two towns’ respective links & with the world-renowned artist JMW Turner and author T D . It is a four-mile signposted route that can be Turner walked in either direction. Local people identified the walk as a priority following the D Turner publication of the Thanet Walking Strategy. Much of the walk is based on the ancient path linking St-Peter-in-Thanet Church, & ickens Look out for Broadstairs, with St John’s Church in Margate. It combines urban and rural Thanet, starting and finishing at the two these signs! D harbours which date back to the Tudor period, one facing north Walk and the other east. ickens Leaflet sponsored by: & The Mosaics. A key feature of the walk is art inspired by Turner and Dickens. Mosaic panels were installed in each town. Internationally renowned Broadstairs mosaic artist, Martin Cheek (www.martincheek.co.uk) worked with children from Walk Upton School, Broadstairs and St. John’s School, Margate on the design and installation. The mosaics are maintained by Broadstairs and Margate Town Teams, with additional funding from Broadstairs and St. Peter’s Town Council. DID YOU KNOW? The numbers relate to the information on the inside spread. 1 Turner Contemporary is located on the site where Turner The Broadstairs branch of the Dickens Fellowship lived in Margate. meet on the 1st Wednesday each month at The Dickens 2 Eric Morecambe held his wedding reception at The Bull’s House Museum and is the force behind for the Head Pub, Market Place, Margate. Dickens Festival which happens in June. 3 Hawley Square: John Keats, Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton lived here. More information visit www.turneranddickenswalk.co.uk 5 St. John’s Church Priests walked to the remote communities or to say Mass at St. Lawrence () and St-Peter-in-Thanet (Broadstairs). www.visitthanet.co.uk or 6 Draper’s Windmill was built in 1845 and worked until the call Thanet Tourist Information on 1930’s. Draper’s Windmill Trust was formed by Mr. R.M.Towes, then Head of Drapers Mills School, to preserve the Mill. 0870 264 6111 7 St. Peter-in-Thanet Church has the right to fly the White Huge thanks to the Facebook group ‘Broadstairs in Photos’, Ensign, dating from when the Church Tower was used as a who have kindly taken and then donated the wonderful signalling station in the Napoleonic Wars. images featured in this leaflet. 8 Dickens Mosaics are opposite the Four Candles Pub, which is the smallest Brewpub in Britain. Buses - The Thanet Loop bus connects Margate and 9 Crampton Tower Museum was built by the Broadstairs- Broadstairs and runs every 8 minutes. born inventor and engineer Thomas Russell Crampton. Margate stop - on Cecil Street just before Hawley Square. A creative connection of 10 Pierremont Hall is a Grade II listed building that Queen Broadstairs stops are by Pierremont Hall and on Queen’s Road. Victoria visited as a child. Margate Railway Station signposted from Turner Margate & Broadstairs 11 Dickens House Museum celebrates Charles Dickens’ strong Contemporary just past Dreamland on your left. connection with Broadstairs from 1837-1851. It was once the Broadstairs Railway Station, at top of the High Street A 4 mile/6km walk - approx. 2 hours home of Miss Mary Pearson Strong, on whom Dickens based the opposite Crampton Tower Museum. character of Betsy Trotwood in . While every effort has been made to ensure that the content of this leaflet is accurate and up to date at the time of printing, no liability can be accepted for www.turneranddickenswalk.co.uk Enjoy the walk! any errors, omissions or misrepresentations of fact contained herein. BROADSTAIRS

1 4 Turner Contemporary Turner Mosaics at St John’s Primary School 11 Start here. Cross the road and Cross over St John’s Road into St John’s Street. After a few metres, turn left turn right to Margate Old Town. into Charlotte Square (note the interesting architecture of the pub!). Walk Head towards Duke Street, to the end and turn right (St Austin & St Gregory RC Church on the corner) on your left. into Victoria Road. Continue until you reach St John’s Church. 10 2 5 Margate Old Town St John’s Church, Margate Walk down Duke Street and turn Turn left into Church Street, which is opposite the right at junction with Love Lane. Enter church. Keep walking as Church Street becomes Market Place. Walk diagonally across St Peter’s Footpath. Cross over Addiscombe Road. to the left and go up New Cross Go straight ahead to cross over College Road and 9 Street. Turn left at the top to the main continue along St Peter’s Footpath. On the right is road (Hawley Street) and turn right. Drapers Mills Primary Academy and on the left is Walk uphill to traffic lights (Cecil Draper’s Windmill. Square). Cross Hawley Steet at the traffic lights and go uphill past Union Crescent to Hawley Square. 9 8 Crampton 3 Tower Hawley Square 7 (on right) Walk diagonally across the Square to the top Walk under the left-hand corner. Go through the gap between railway bridge and the houses and turn right into Addington 6 continue straight Street. Continue along until you see St John’s ahead into the Church of Primary School. High Street.

7 10 St Peter-in-Thanet Church Pierremont 4 Walk through Hall (on right) Look out for 3 5 the churchyard, Continue down & one of the the High Street to T D these signs! longest in the the bottom and country. When walk through the you emerge gap on the right from the Church, cross over the of the Albion Hotel to the seafront and road and go straight ahead down the end of the walk, with the Dickens 6 the High Street. Keep going and House Museum on the right. 2 Draper’s Windmill the road becomes St Peter’s Road. Continue along St Peter’s 11 Footpath. Just after the school 8 Dickens House Museum you will pass allotments. Then Dickens Dickens House Museum bear right on the path and walk Mosaics celebrates Charles Dickens’ over the bridge, which crosses Continue along long connection with the railway track. Turn left and to the end of St Broadstairs from 1837 to 1851. 1 keep walking. Look up and in It was once the home of Miss the distance you will see the Peter’s Road and Mary Pearson Strong on whom Church of St Peter-in-Thanet. turn left towards Charles Dickens based much You are now walking along the pathway that the the traffic lights. of the character of Miss Betsey priests walked along in medieval times! Continue Go straight down Trotwood, in his novel along to reach the Church. The Broadway. David Copperfield. MARGATE