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Birchington-on-Sea is a village in north east Kent, England. It is a part of the Thanet district and a part of the civil parish of Birchington. It sits on the coast facing the North Sea, east of the Thames Estuary, between the seaside resorts of Herne Bay and Margate. As a seaside resort, the village is a tourist and retirement destination. The village’s Minnis Bay is a family beach with attractions like sailing, windsurfing, a paddling pool and coastal walking routes. Its 3 smaller beaches are surrounded by chalk cliffs, cliff stacks and caves. The village was originally recorded in 1240. Its parish church, All Saints’, dates to the thirteenth century and its churchyard is the burial location of the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Quex Park, a local nineteenth century manor house, is home to the Powell-Cotton Museum and a twelve-bell tower built for change ringing. The museum boasts a significant collection of stuffed exotic animals collected by Major Percy Powell-Cotton on his travels in Africa, and also boasts artifacts unearthed in and around Birchington by his daughter, Antoinette Powell-Cotton, a keen archaeologist. As per the 2011 census, the village had approximately 10,000 permanent residents and around 5,000 households. As a seaside resort, the village has an economy primarily based around tourism, with numerous hotels, caravan parks and leisure attractions. The sector of employment of residents in 2011 was 16.1% retail, 17.2 per cent health and social work, 5.8 per cent manufacturing, 9.6% building, 4.9% transport and storage, and 4.3% hotels and restaurants. The village shopping centre attracts walk-in trade from visitors to the area. For all of your property improvement tasks, be sure that you utilise trusted pros in Birchington-on-Sea to ensure you get a good quality service.