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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 is located 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 such as sailing, windsurfing, a paddling pool and coastal walking routes. Its three smaller sized beaches are surrounded by chalk cliffs, cliff stacks and caves. The village was originally recorded in 1240. Its parish church, All Saints’, dates back 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 also a twelve-bell tower built for change ringing. The museum features a big collection of stuffed exotic animals collected by Major Percy Powell-Cotton on his travels in Africa, and also houses artifacts discovered in and around Birchington by his daughter, Antoinette Powell-Cotton, a keen archaeologist. At the 2011 census, the village had around 10,000 permanent residents and around 5,000 households. As a seaside resort, the village’s economy is primarily based around tourism, with a number of hotels, caravan parks and leisure attractions. The industry of employment of residents in 2011 was 16.1 per cent retail, 17.2% health and social work, 5.8% manufacturing, 9.6% construction, 4.9% transport and storage, and 4.3 per cent hotels and restaurants. The village shopping centre attracts walk-in trade from tourists. For all of your property improvement projects, be sure that you use trusted specialists in Birchington-on-Sea to ensure you get a great quality service.