Hawkinge

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Hawkinge

Total population

4,294

Coordinates51.12°, 1.16°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Hawkinge is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. The original village of Hawkinge is actually just less than a mile due east of the present village centre; the village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Francis Pettit Smith

British inventor

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Hattie Jacques

English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen (1922-1980)

Robert Holdstock

British fantasy and science fiction author (1948-2009)

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Hugh N. Kennedy

British historian

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Robert Wilson

British crime-writer

Thomas Head Raddall

Canadian historian (1903–1994)

Clinton Thomas Dent

British surgeon and mountain climber

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Francis Travers

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Henry H. Travers

New Zealand naturalist and botanist (1844–1928)

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Arthur Alston

Anglican bishop, the third Bishop of Middleton

Ben Shockley

actor

Charles Latham

wheat farmer and politician in Western Australia (1882–1968)

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Charles Scrope Hutchinson

British Army officer (1826-1912)

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Edward Betts

English civil engineering contractor who was mainly involved in the building of railways

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Edward Hamersley

Western Australian politician (1810–1875)

Geoffrey Salmond

Royal Air Force air marshal (1878-1933)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Etchinghill
  3 mi away
• Lympne
  6.5 mi away
• Sellindge
  7.6 mi away
• Burmarsh
  8.6 mi away
• St Marys Bay
  10.8 mi away
• New Romney
  13.2 mi away
• Shottenden
  13.8 mi away
• Hersden
  13.8 mi away
• Staplestreet
  15.7 mi away
• Dargate
  15.8 mi away
• Herne
  16.3 mi away
• Monkton
  16.3 mi away · pop. 611

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Official Identifiers