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Beachborough

Coordinates: 51°06′N 1°06′E / 51.10°N 1.1°E / 51.10; 1.1
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Beachborough
Beachborough House
Beachborough is located in Kent
Beachborough
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51°06′N 1°06′E / 51.10°N 1.1°E / 51.10; 1.1

Beachborough is a hamlet WNW of Folkestone in Kent, England. It lies south of Etchinghill on a minor cross-country route. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Newington.

The hamlet forms a part of Beachborough Manor, which became a small landed estate. Brockman and Drake-Brockman families, then by other families, among whom were briefly the Markham (baronets)Markham baronets, who used Beachborough as their territorial affiliation, when awarded their title in 1911.