Eastchurch is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Sheppey, in the English county of Kent, two miles east of Minster. The village website claims the area has "a history steeped in stories of piracy and smugglers".
The Church of All Saints in Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey
Detail on the Memorial to the Home of Aviation in Eastchurch
Sculpture on the edge of Eastchurch depicting a Short Brothers biplane, unveiled in July 2009 to mark the centenary of British aviation
The eighteenth-century building at 2 Warden Road
The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England, neighbouring the Thames Estuary, centred 42 miles (68 km) from central London. It has an area of 36 square miles (93 km2). The island forms part of the local government district of Swale. Sheppey is derived from Old English Sceapig, meaning "Sheep Island".
Sheppey as seen by the Operational Land Imager on the satellite Landsat 8
Welcome sign
The Kingsferry Bridge, which lifts both road and rail, here letting a ship go through
The Sheppey Crossing with the towers of the Kingsferry Bridge at left, seen from the island