Broadstairs

Broadstairs
Viking Bay, Broadstairs
Broadstairs Location within Kent
Population	24,903 (Broadstairs and St Peter's parish 2011)[1]
OS grid reference	TR395675
• London	81.6 miles (131.3 km)
Civil parish	Broadstairs and St Peter's
District	Thanet
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Broadstairs
Postcode district	CT10
Dialling code	01843
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	South Thanet
List of places UK England Kent 51°21′32″N 1°26′22″E / 51.35888°N 1.43944°E / 51.35888; 1.43944

Broadstairs is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about 80 miles (130 km) east of London. It is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, which includes St Peter's, and had a population in 2011 of about 25,000. Situated between Margate and Ramsgate, Broadstairs is one of Thanet's seaside resorts, known as the "jewel in Thanet's crown". The town's coat of arms' Latin motto is Stella Maris ("Star of the Sea"). The name derives from a former flight of steps in the chalk cliff, which led from the sands up to the 11th-century shrine of St Mary on the cliff's summit.

The town spreads from Haine Road in the west to Kingsgate (named after the landing of King Charles II in 1683), a hamlet in St Peter parish^[2] in the north, and to Dumpton in the south (named after the yeoman Dudeman who farmed there in the 13th century). The hamlet of Reading (formerly Reden or Redyng) Street was established by Flemish refugees in the 17th century.