Traditional county: Kent · District / Borough: Canterbury · Region: South East
Explore Bekesbourne Hill, Kent with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Bekesbourne Hill map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
| Place | Bekesbourne Hill |
| Traditional County | Kent |
| District / Borough | Canterbury |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.261350 |
| Longitude | 1.140291 |
| Place Type | Village |
Bekesbourne Hill catches the pale Kentish light on its gentle slopes. It lies 3.9 km south-south-east of Fordwich (from Fordwich: bearing 165°T, OS grid TR 191 560), and is situated north-north-west of Bekesbourne village. The landscape here is a quiet tapestry of arable fields, their ordered lines often softened by the meandering course of hidden streams, the water a cool, dark vein beneath the wide sky. There are no grand pronouncements of history here, but rather a sense of enduring agricultural rhythms, the land itself a quiet witness to generations of cultivation. The air, particularly on a still morning, carries the faint scent of turned earth and distant hedgerows, a subtle perfume of the countryside. Bekesbourne Hill, though small, possesses a grounded solidity, a place where the distant hum of Canterbury feels a world away, replaced by the whisper of the wind through the grass.
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Explore Bekesbourne Hill, Kent, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.261350, 1.140291. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |