Quex House and Powell-Cotton Museum
Museum · A Regency country house in seven acres of gardens, home to a world-renowned museum of animal dioramas.
Birchington
A seaside village on the north Kent coast, with small chalk-backed bays below the cliffs and the Powell-Cotton Museum in the grounds of Quex Park.
From King's Cross St Pancras: 1 h 47 min by train · 2 h 22 min by car
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Time there: 2.5–5 h to see all 2 places
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Quick facts
The poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti died in Birchington in 1882 and is buried in the churchyard of All Saints.
Quex House holds the Powell-Cotton Museum, the collection of the Victorian explorer Percy Powell-Cotton, with his dioramas of African and Asian animals.
Birchington-on-Sea station is on the line from London Victoria, a walk from the beaches.
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