Broadstairs (gbr)

Broadstairs

Broadstairs ranks 6,454th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Yeovil, Dubbo, and San Luis Potosí City. Memorable people born in Broadstairs include Edward Heath, Richard Rodney Bennett, and Bruce Robinson. Memorable people who died in Broadstairs include John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Laurence Doherty, and Grafton Elliot Smith. Broadstairs has been the birth place of many politicians, and musicians and the death place of many archaeologists, and tennis players. Broadstairs is located in United Kingdom.

Broadstairs is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about 80 miles (130 km) east of London. It is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, which includes St Peter's, and had a population in 2011 of about 25,000. Situated between Margate and Ramsgate, Broadstairs is one of Thanet's seaside resorts, known as the "jewel in Thanet's crown". The town's coat of arms' Latin motto is Stella Maris. The name derives from a former flight of steps in the chalk cliff, which led from the sands up to the 11th-century shrine of St Mary on the cliff's summit. Read more on Wikipedia