Vest hanger
| Vest hanger | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 5 ' N , 1 ° 2' E | ||
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| Residents | 429 (as of April 29, 2001) | ||
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| Post town | HYTHE | ||
| ZIP code section | CT21 | ||
| prefix | 01303 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South East England | ||
| Shire county | Kent | ||
| District | Folkestone and Hythe | ||
| British Parliament | Folkestone and Hythe | ||
Westenhanger is a small English town in southeast Kent . It is located approx. 5 km northwest of Hythe and immediately south of junction 11 of the M20 motorway . Watling Street or Stone Street is a Roman road from Lympne to Canterbury that runs through the city. In the 2011 census, the residents of Stanford, Kent, were counted (429).
Westenhanger is home to the Folkestone Racecourse, (1898–2012), which also served as an airfield for the Royal Air Force during World War II . The Westenhanger Castle is located next to the racetrack .
Westenhanger has its own train station, which is served by the Southeastern Railway Company, which runs between Charing Cross and Dover via Ashford .
In September 2016, entomologists from Public Health England found eggs of the Asian tiger mosquito for the first time in Great Britain at a truck stop near a Wesenhanger petrol station (Folkstone service station) .
Individual evidence
- ^ UK government Parish population 2011 Office for National Statistics, accessed January 31, 2017
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 179 Canterbury & East Kent (Dover & Margate) , ISBN 9780319228784 , Ordnance Survey 2013
- ↑ Folkestone Racecourse Arena Racing Company website, accessed January 31, 2017
- ↑ Jolyon M Medlock, Alexander GC Vaux, Benjamin Cull, Francis Schaffner, Emma Gillingham, Valentin Pfluger, Steve Leach Detection of the invasive mosquito species Aedes albopictus in southern England Lancet Volume 17, No. 2, p140, February 2017; accessed on January 31, 2017.