Bay View, Kent

Bay View
The Bay View pub
Bay View Bay View shown within Kent
District	Swale
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Sheerness
Dialling code	01795 510
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
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Coordinates: 51°24′00″N 0°54′24″E / 51.4°N 0.90667°E / 51.4; 0.90667

Bay View is a hamlet on the east side of the Isle of Sheppey in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England.

History

Bay View is a development of houses started in the 1940s and since then has grown to 248 dwellings^[1]

Geography

Eastchurch is located two miles away to the ENE and Leysdown is a mile to the east. Warden is a mile to the north and Leysdown Marshes lie to the south.

Economy

There is a holiday park in Bay View and a pub, the Bay View. There is also a garage which sells caravans and miscellaneous supplies. Formerly there were two general stores, but one closed in the 1980s due to a lack of trade. The same fate led to the closure of the Bay View Stores in 2004.

51% of the population travels more than 10 km to work, with 72% of workers travelling by car.^[2]

Transport

The B2231 road runs along the southern edge of Bay View and provides the only transport link. Buses run every half hour or hour to the rest of the Isle and services to the mainland are also available.^[2]

Education

Bay View has no education facilities, with the nearest school being two miles away in Eastchurch.

References

↑ Swale Borough Council, Swale Borough Local Plan, document WR/SBC/136/1, Swale Borough Council .
1 2 Swale Borough Council, Swale Borough Local Plan, document WR/SBC/136/1, Swale Borough Council

Towns and villages in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England

Unparished areas	Sheerness Sittingbourne

Civil parishes	Badlesmere Bapchild Bobbing Borden Boughton under Blean Bredgar Doddington Dunkirk Eastchurch Eastling Faversham Graveney with Goodnestone Hartlip Hernhill Iwade Leaveland Leysdown-on-Sea Lower Halstow Lynsted with Kingsdown Milstead Minster-on-sea Newington Newnham Norton, Buckland and Stone Oare Ospringe Queenborough Rodmersham Selling Sheldwich Stalisfield Teynham Throwley Tonge Tunstall Upchurch Warden

Other settlements	Bay View Brogdale Chestnut Street Conyer Danaway Dargate Davington Denstroude Elmley Faversham Without Halfway Houses Harty Heart's Delight, Swale Highsted Kemsley Keycol Luddenham Milton Regis Mockbeggar Murston Norton Oad Street Oversland Painters Forstal Rushenden Shellness Uplees Waterham Whitehill

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