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Birchington

village in Thanet, north-east Kent, England
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Summary

Birchington is a village[1]. Birchington ranks in the top 0.33% of village entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (278 views/month, #167 of 50,837).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Thanet[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Thames Estuary[5]
  • Instance of: civil parish[6]
  • Shares border with: Thames Estuary[7]
  • Postal code: CT7[8]
  • Commons category: Birchington-on-Sea[9], Birchington[10]
  • Local dialing code: 01843[11]
  • OS grid reference: TR298694[12]
  • Official website: https://birchington-pc.gov.uk/[13]
  • Population: 10,392[14], 10,395[15], 9827[16], 9961[17]
  • Historic county: Kent[18]

Why It Matters

Birchington has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Birchington is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1h ago · 11piemontesibellitosti · 2026-10-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Thanet
    Commons category → Birchington-on-Sea, Birchington
    Gss code (2011) → E04005081
    Openstreetmap relation id → 2567121
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Official website: https://birchington-pc.gov.uk/"
  2. 9d ago · Steinsky · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Shares border with → Thames Estuary
    Population → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 51.376944, 'lon': 1.305}
    Sitelink count → 15
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Instance of: civil parish, Moving from Birchington"
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