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Galerie
Turner Contemporary
Contemporary art gallery on the harbour, named after J. M. W. Turner, who went to school in Margate and returned throughout his life.
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Margate and Broadstairs: things to do
Places worth your time in Margate and Broadstairs
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Things to do in Margate and Broadstairs
Monuments, musées, parcs et points de vue dans le quartier et ses environs.
Plage
Margate Main Sands
Sandy beach in front of the town, between the Harbour Arm and Dreamland.
Port
Margate Harbour Arm
The old stone pier enclosing the harbour, with cafés and bars along it and views back to the town.
Site d'intérêt
Shell Grotto
Underground passage and chamber lined with about 4.6 million shells, rediscovered around 1835; nobody knows who made it or when.
Site d'intérêt
Dreamland Margate
Seafront amusement park whose Grade II* listed Scenic Railway wooden roller coaster opened in 1920; rides run in season.
Demeure historique
Tudor House
Timber-framed Tudor house in Margate Old Town.
Visite souterraine
Margate Caves
Caves first dug as a chalk mine and opened as a Victorian seaside attraction in 1863.
Théâtre
Theatre Royal
Theatre on Addington Street, on the edge of the Old Town.
Musée
Crab Museum
Small independent museum about crabs, a few doors from Turner Contemporary.
Plage
Walpole Bay Tidal Pool
Large sea-water bathing pool on the foreshore at Cliftonville.
Moulin à vent
Draper's Mill
Grade II* listed smock mill, built in 1845.
Plage
Viking Bay
Broadstairs' central sandy bay, with beach huts and children's rides, overlooked by Bleak House.
Demeure historique
Bleak House
Clifftop house above Viking Bay, built around 1801, linked with Charles Dickens's holidays in the town.
Musée
Dickens House Museum
Museum in a late-Georgian cottage on Victoria Parade about Dickens and his time in Broadstairs, run by Thanet District Council.
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Musée
Crampton Tower Museum
Small museum about the engineer Thomas Crampton and his connections with Broadstairs.
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Plage
Stone Bay
Sandy bay below the cliffs, just north of Viking Bay.
Plage
Joss Bay
Sandy bay north of the town, with a surf school according to Visit Thanet.
Plage
Botany Bay
The most northerly of the Broadstairs bays, with chalk stacks on the beach.
Phare
North Foreland Lighthouse
Lighthouse on North Foreland, the chalk headland at the north end of Broadstairs.
Parc
Pierremont Park
Public park in the centre of the town, near the station.
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- Margate and Broadstairs (area photo): DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Turner Contemporary: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Margate Main Sands: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Margate Harbour Arm: No Swan So Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Shell Grotto: Gernot Keller www.gernot-keller.com, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Dreamland Margate: Ruth Johnston from United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, source
- Tudor House: Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Margate Caves: John Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Theatre Royal: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Crab Museum: Bex Walton, CC BY 4.0, source
- Viking Bay: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bleak House: No machine-readable author provided. Heron2 assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, source
- Dickens House Museum: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Crampton Tower Museum: Josh Tilley, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Stone Bay: Jim Osley, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Joss Bay: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Botany Bay: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- North Foreland Lighthouse: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Pierremont Park: pam fray, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Deal: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Dover: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Canterbury: Hans Musil, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Whitstable: Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
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