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Birchington

Birchington-on-Sea is a village within north east Kent, England. It's a part of the Thanet district and part of the civil parish of Birchington. It sits on the coast facing the North Sea, east of the Thames Estuary, in between the seaside resorts of Herne Bay and Margate. As a seaside resort, the village is a tourist and retirement destination. The village's Minnis Bay is a family beach with attractions including sailing, windsurfing, a paddling pool and coastal walking routes. Its 3 smaller sized beaches are surrounded by chalk cliffs, cliff stacks and caves. The village was initially recorded in 1240. Its parish church, All Saints', dates to the thirteenth century and its churchyard is the burial place of the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Quex Park, a local nineteenth century manor house, is home to the Powell-Cotton Museum along with a twelve-bell tower built for change ringing. The museum includes a considerable collection of stuffed exotic animals collected by Major Percy Powell-Cotton on his travels in Africa, and also boasts artifacts found in and around Birchington by his daughter, Antoinette Powell-Cotton, a keen archaeologist. At the 2011 census, the village had 9,961 residents and roughly 5,000 households. As a seaside resort, the village has an economy primarily based around tourism, with many hotels, caravan parks and leisure attractions. The sector of employment of residents in 2011 was 16.1 per cent retail, 17.2 per cent health and social work, 5.8% manufacturing, 9.6% building, 4.9 per cent transport and storage, and 4.3 per cent hotels and restaurants. The village shopping centre attracts walk-in trade from vacationers. For all of your house upgrades, be sure that you employ vetted professionals in Birchington-on-Sea to make sure you get a fantastic quality service.