Greatstone-on-Sea

Greatstone
Greatstone
	St Peter's Church
	Greatstone Location within Kent
OS grid reference	TR077225
District	Folkestone and Hythe;
Shire county	Kent;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	New Romney
Postcode district	TN28
Dialling code	01797
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Folkestone and Hythe;
	List of places UK England Kent 50°58′12″N 0°57′50″E / 50.97°N 0.964°E

Greatstone is a village on the coast of Romney Marsh in Kent, England.^[1]^[2] It is east of the town of New Romney and split between the civil parishes of New Romney and Lydd.

Although permission was given for a company to construct large numbers of homes and facilities in the 1920s, only a small number were actually built. There was widespread development in the 1960s and 1970s, however, leading to a sizable community.

Amenities

The church of St Peter's, built in the 1960s, is a daughter church of All Saints, Lydd.

There is a small group of shops at one end of the town, and the other end adjoins Lydd-on-Sea. The local school is the Greatstone Primary School, from which most students either go on to The Marsh Academy, the Folkestone School for Girls or the Harvey Grammar School.

The beach features on Teletubbies on BBC, Series 1: 11. Windy Day, Dec 14, 2015.

Sound Mirrors

Transport

Greatstone has two main roads from two locations. One way to Lydd, Lydd Airport and East Sussex or another to New Romney and the rest of Kent. The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway runs through the village with a station at Romney Sands. From 1937 until 1967 the town also had a national railway station at Greatstone-on-Sea Halt.

Stagecoach in East Kent runs local buses to other towns.

References

^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 189 Ashford & Romney (Marsh Rye & Folkestone) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN 9780319231159.
^ "Greatstone - Romney Marsh". www.theromneymarsh.net. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.

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[OS189-1] Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 189 Ashford & Romney (Marsh Rye & Folkestone) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN 9780319231159.

[2] "Greatstone - Romney Marsh". www.theromneymarsh.net. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.

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