Hythe

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Hythe

Total population

14,766

Coordinates51.07°, 1.08°

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

Overview

Hythe is an old market town and civil parish on the edge of Romney Marsh in Kent, England. Hythe is an Old English word meaning haven or landing place.

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)

Edmund Berry Godfrey

English magistrate

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Edward Hamersley

Western Australian politician (1810–1875)

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Hamo Hethe

Bishop of Rochester

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

Geography & sun

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

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Hythe

Hythe The Postcard Collection

Martin Easdown · 2017

Hythe History Tour

Martin Easdown · 2018

Hythe

Joy Melville · 2004

Hythe town centre

Hampshire (England). County Planning Department. · 1969

Hythe town centre map

Hampshire (England). County Planning Dept. · 1971

Dover, Folkestone and Hythe

Ordnance Survey · 1997

The Right Honourable Viscount Wakefield of Hythe

1941

Hythe Through Time

Martin Easdown and Linda Sage · 2010

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

European Firebug

Pyrrhocoris apterus

Seen 2026-09-16

European Nursery Web spider

Pisaura mirabilis

Seen 2026-09-15

Wall Brown

Lasiommata megera

Seen 2026-09-15

Small White

Pieris rapae

Seen 2026-09-14

Rambur's pied shieldbug

Tritomegas sexmaculatus

Seen 2026-09-14

white campion

Silene latifolia

Seen 2026-09-14

Red Clover

Trifolium pratense

Seen 2026-09-14

Stinking iris

Iris foetidissima

Seen 2026-09-13

European beech

Fagus sylvatica

Seen 2026-09-13

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers