Summary

A Kent fishing harbour below the cliff-face Creative Quarter — a Victorian harbour arm, working fishing boats on the beach, the closed Folkestone Harbour station, and the Harbour Arm cultural venue.

About this location

Folkestone Harbour sits at the foot of the chalk cliffs below the town, with a working beach-launched fishing fleet alongside the enclosed inner harbour. The Harbour Arm — a Victorian pier extending into the Channel — has been converted to an arts and food venue. The Folkestone Harbour station (formerly the rail connection to the cross-Channel ferries, closed 2009) is a small late-Victorian railway terminus at the harbour entrance, preserved and now used as a and arts space.

The Creative Quarter — the neighbourhood above the harbour on the cliff road — is an arts-led regeneration area with independent studios and galleries in Victorian terraced buildings. The old High Street (the original fishing town street below the later Victorian commercial development) gives a smaller-scale period domestic and commercial street.

For productions, Folkestone gives a Kent channel-port environment at smaller scale than Dover — the fishing harbour beach, the Victorian harbour arm, the closed railway terminus, and the cliff-top view over the Channel. Folkestone and Hythe District Council handles filming permits.