Official town council web site, with information on the town and its environs. Broadstairs was the fishing hamlet associated with the inland village of St Peters established around the parish church which was built circa 1080AD. Anciently it was called Bradstow. This was derived from the “broad stairs” carved in the chalk cliff, that led from the sands to the 12th century shrine of St Mary situated above the cliffs. The town spreads from Poorhole Lane in the west, named from the mass graves dating from the Black Death, to Kingsgate in the north, named after the landing of King Charles II in 1683, & to Dumpton in the south, named after the yeoman Dudeman who farmed there in the 13th century.

Address: Pierremont Hall, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 1JX
Telephone: 01843 868718
Fax: 01843 866048
Website: http://www.broadstairs.gov.uk/