Dymchurch

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

here · spans 24 counties

Chalk hills, ancient woods and orchards, ending in the white cliffs above the Channel

4 km N

A 600-acre wild animal park on the Downs above the Marsh, with safari trucks among rhinos, giraffes and gorillas.

5.4 km N

Pink-washed box pews and a sloping floor in a church used in the film Dr Syn, one of the marsh's finest.

7.9 km SW

Three giant concrete 'listening ears' of the 1920s, built to hear approaching aircraft, marooned on an island in a gravel pit.

8.1 km S

Hillside church above Hythe whose vaulted ambulatory crypt holds a stacked ossuary of medieval skulls and bones.

8.1 km NE