For Sale6 Bedroom Detached House in Shakespeare Road, Birchington, Kent Ct7 9et£975,000

This family home is in a wonderful position as the road is a dead end so it is very safe for children and pets. We are a stone's throw from the tennis courts and bowls club as well as the seafront and Beresford Gap if you want to water ski. We are within easy walking distance of Birchington station for the high speed train to London or secondary schools in the surrounding towns, while the village centre includes individual shops, a supermarket, hairdressers, nail bars, vets and a medical centre. There are some excellent restaurants and pubs in the vicinity including The Smugglers and the Powell Arms plus Quex Park with its fascinating diorama museum and outside complex incorporating a garden centre, leisure activity areas, craft shops and a livery stables. Quex Barn offers wonderful food shopping in its farm shop and a great eating experience in the restaurant. The local Birchington primary is a good school and there is also King Ethelbert secondary school and the Ursuline College available in Birchington and Westgate, while grammar and private schools can be found in nearby Broadstairs and Ramsgate. It is not far from the main road for the Thanet Way to London and Canterbury. As well as bowls, tennis and water skiing there is the sailing club and other water sports such as wind surfing in nearby Minnis Bay not to mention the Westgate and Birchington Golf Club for golfing enthusiasts. If you enjoy walking there are a number of excellent places for a bracing walk with the dog and for cyclists you can revel in a trip to Reculver along the Viking Coastal Trail. There is also a very good and inexpensive cinema in Westgate, theatres in Ramsgate and Broadstairs and if you want to go further afield Westwood Cross includes a large shopping centre with a variety of high street stores, a retail park and the Vue cinema complex as well as a casino and numerous restaurants.