Beachborough
Appearance
Beachborough | |
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Beachborough House | |
Location within Kent | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Folkestone |
Postcode district | CT18 |
Police | Kent |
Fire | Kent |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament | |
Beachborough is a hamlet WNW of Folkestone in Kent, England. It lies south of Etchinghill on a minor cross-country route. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Newington.
The hamlet forms a part of Beachborough Manor, which became a small landed estate. Brockman and Drake-Brockman families, then by other families, among whom were briefly the Markham (baronets)Markham baronets, who used Beachborough as their territorial affiliation, when awarded their title in 1911.