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Birchington-on-Sea is a village within north east Kent, England. It is part of the Thanet district and forms part of the civil parish of Birchington. It is positioned on the coast facing the North Sea, east of the Thames Estuary, in between the seaside resorts of Herne Bay and Margate. As a seaside resort, the village is a tourist and retirement location. 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 first recorded in 1240. Its parish church, All Saints’, dates back to the 13th century and its churchyard is the burial place 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 as well as a twelve-bell tower built for change ringing. The museum includes a large collection of stuffed exotic animals collected by Major Percy Powell-Cotton on his travels in Africa, and also houses artifacts unearthed in and around Birchington by his daughter, Antoinette Powell-Cotton, a keen archaeologist. In the 2011 census, the village had 10,000 residents and roughly 5,000 households. As a seaside resort, the village has an economy based around tourism, with various hotels, caravan parks and leisure attractions. The sector of employment of residents in 2011 was 16.1 per cent retail, 17.2 per cent health and social work, 5.8 per cent manufacturing, 9.6 per cent construction, 4.9% transport and storage, and 4.3% hotels and restaurants. The village shopping centre attracts walk-in trade from tourists. For all your house improvements, be sure that you utilise trusted experts in Birchington-on-Sea to make sure you get a good quality service.