Cliffsend

Cliffsend is a village (sometimes written, correctly, as Cliffs End) and <a href="/facts/Civil_parish/4GuHX8Wm">civil parish</a> situated almost 2 miles (3 km) west of <a href="/facts/Ramsgate/GW0YsR9L">Ramsgate</a>, <a href="/facts/Kent/aYfQI6Fc">Kent</a>, United Kingdom, in the <a href="/facts/Thanet_District/vQRzWp5Y">Thanet</a> local government district.
<a href="/facts/Hengist_and_Horsa/JuSuGEcE">Hengist and Horsa</a> landed near here in 410AD, and <a href="/facts/Augustine_of_Canterbury/gzkN5nfa">St Augustine</a> in 597.
There is evidence to show that the area of Cliffsend Village was inhabited since ancient times. Excavations prior to a housing development at <a href="https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/living-island">Cliffs End Farm</a> in 2003/2004 revealed artefacts and a burial site dating to the Bronze Age. 
Pegwell Bay Country Park is located here. Also on permanent display on the cliff top at <a href="/facts/Pegwell_Bay/fAzuckPy">Pegwell Bay</a> is a replica of the <a href="/facts/Viking_longship/NLuXcbkm">Viking longship</a> <a href="/facts/Hugin_(longship)/ydUHppWd">Hugin</a>, which sailed from Denmark to Thanet in 1949 to celebrate the 1500th anniversary of the invasion of Britain, the traditional landing of the two men, and the betrothal of <a href="/facts/Hengist_and_Horsa/JuSuGEcE">Hengist</a>'s daughter, <a href="/facts/Rowena/gqod2qhS">Rowena</a>, to King <a href="/facts/Vortigen/4lAIFDrD">Vortigen</a> of Kent. The Hugin was offered as a gift to Ramsgate and Broadstairs by the <a href="/facts/Daily_Mail/a4uUpVJG">Daily Mail</a> for preservation.

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