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Gallery
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
Top places
Things to do in Margate and Broadstairs
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Beach
Margate Main Sands
Sandy beach in front of the town, between the Harbour Arm and Dreamland.
Harbour
Margate Harbour Arm
The old stone pier enclosing the harbour, with cafés and bars along it and views back to the town.
Attraction
Shell Grotto
Underground passage and chamber lined with about 4.6 million shells, rediscovered around 1835; nobody knows who made it or when.
Attraction
Dreamland Margate
Seafront amusement park whose Grade II* listed Scenic Railway wooden roller coaster opened in 1920; rides run in season.
Historic house
Tudor House
Timber-framed Tudor house in Margate Old Town.
Underground tour
Margate Caves
Caves first dug as a chalk mine and opened as a Victorian seaside attraction in 1863.
Theatre
Theatre Royal
Theatre on Addington Street, on the edge of the Old Town.
Museum
Crab Museum
Small independent museum about crabs, a few doors from Turner Contemporary.
Beach
Walpole Bay Tidal Pool
Large sea-water bathing pool on the foreshore at Cliftonville.
Windmill
Draper's Mill
Grade II* listed smock mill, built in 1845.
Beach
Viking Bay
Broadstairs' central sandy bay, with beach huts and children's rides, overlooked by Bleak House.
Historic house
Bleak House
Clifftop house above Viking Bay, built around 1801, linked with Charles Dickens's holidays in the town.
Museum
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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Museum
Crampton Tower Museum
Small museum about the engineer Thomas Crampton and his connections with Broadstairs.
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Beach
Stone Bay
Sandy bay below the cliffs, just north of Viking Bay.
Beach
Joss Bay
Sandy bay north of the town, with a surf school according to Visit Thanet.
Beach
Botany Bay
The most northerly of the Broadstairs bays, with chalk stacks on the beach.
Lighthouse
North Foreland Lighthouse
Lighthouse on North Foreland, the chalk headland at the north end of Broadstairs.
Park
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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