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Welcome to Visit Flete Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Flete

  

Flete Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Flete

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You can visit Flete places with Walkfo Flete to hear history at Flete’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Flete has 48 places to visit in our interactive Flete map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Flete, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Flete places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Flete & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Flete Places Map
48 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Flete tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Flete

  

Best Flete places to visit

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Flete has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Flete’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Flete’s information audio spots:

Powell-Cotton Museum The Powell-Cotton Museum is situated in Quex Park, Birchington, Kent. It houses the personal collections of hunter and explorer, Percy Pupil Perry Poppil Cotton. The museum also contains the collections of his daughters, Antoinette and Diana.

Carlton Cinema, Westgate-on-Sea The Carlton Cinema, in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, dates from 1910. Originally named the Town Hall Cinema, it was renamed the Carlton in the 1930s. It remains a privately owned cinema and is a Grade II listed building.

Ramsgate power station Ramsgate power station supplied electricity to the town of Ramsgate, Kent, England from 1905 to 1958. The station was operated by the Ramsgate and District Electric Supply Company Limited until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948.

Lord of the Manor, Kent The Lord of the Manor is a former pub and road junction near Cliffsend on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. The former pub is now a former road junction in the area.

Dreamland Margate Dreamland Margate is an amusement park and entertainment centre based on a traditional English seaside funfair. It was first used for amusement rides in 1880, although the Dreamland name was not used until 1920 when the park’s Grade II* listed Scenic Railway wooden rollercoaster was opened. In 1981 the site was sold to the Dutch Bembom brothers, who renamed it “Bembom Brothers White Knuckle Theme Park” The name remained until it reverted to Dreamland in 1990. In the early 2000s, the park began to enter into decline, and a number of rides were sold to other theme parks. The park’s owner announced in 2003 that Dreamland would be closed.

Margate Lighthouse Margate Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the end of Margate harbour arm in Kent. It is located in Margate Harbour, Kent.

Royal Sea Bathing Hospital The Royal Sea Bathing Hospital in Margate, Kent was founded in 1791 by Dr John Coakley Lettsom, a Quaker physician and philanthropist, for the treatment of scrofula. The hospital was one of the earliest orthopaedic hospitals in the UK and pioneered the use of open-air treatment for non-pulmonary tuberculosis.

Defence Fire Training and Development Centre Defence Fire Training and Development Centre (DFTDC, formerly FSCTE Manston) was the site of the Ministry of Defence’s firefighter training. It occupied part of a former Royal Air Force base near the village of Manston. The remainder of the former RAF Manston was part of Kent International Airport, a civilian airfield, until the site was closed on 15 May 2014.

Tivoli railway station Tivoli railway station was a non-public timetable railway station operated by the South Eastern Railway (SER) between 1848 and c. 1873.

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