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I have seen old postcards showing these features on the coast of Birchington, but I have also walked along that coast and there is no sign of them now. The stacks crumbled away in the early 20th century and the remains of the caves are bricked up or concreted over. I suspect that this description was copied from an old guidebook. Can anybody supply a more modern description?
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This article no longer meets the current FA criteria in several places. The history section contains nothing after 1903. Many sections are out of date. There's some uncited bits. Some of the sourcing is a touch iffy. For instance, The drinking water in the village is classed as being 'very hard', having just over 120 mg of calcium per litre. The hardness is due to water being obtained from underground chalk sources by the water company Southern Water. is sourced to something that doesn't even mention this specific place. Minnis Bay Sailing Club, founded in 1950, is a dinghy and catamaran club where members can sail for fun, but competitions are also held most weekends is sourced to the club's own website. We need a third party source to verify that this group is really significant. If this article isn't brought up to the current FA standards, it may go through WP:FAR. Hog FarmBacon06:41, 18 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move reviewafter discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Birchington-on-Sea → Birchington – The lead was recently changed by NoreMacT12(talk·contribs), but without a RM, and I was about to revert it to comply with MOS:LEAD, but looking into it, I suspect NoreMacT12's change was a good one. The official name of the parish is indeed just "Birchington"; and from what I can see looking through the citations, it's the WP:COMMONNAME as well – I see no citations in the article that use the suffixed version – aside from being the WP:CONCISE option. 'Birchington' has always redirected here, so there is no need for the disambiguator. Joe D(t)14:51, 8 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Weak support I've wondered about this myself because the longer name does seem to be quite common but given the OS uses the short name for both the village and parish I'd say that that is common usage and WP:CONCISE if we're not sure. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:12, 8 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Support per nom. I have not done any detailed research, but it is the official name and it is probably the COMMONNAME. But the alternative name Birchington-on-Sea should be mentioned in the lead. It is used, for example, in Google Maps. FromCzech (talk) 09:27, 9 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
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