Littlestone

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

2.4 km S

Derek Jarman's black fisherman's cottage on the Dungeness shingle, its yellow-trimmed windows and shingle garden famous.

6.1 km S

A vast shingle headland of fishing boats, two lighthouses and scattered huts, often called Britain's only desert.

6.7 km S

On the shifting shingle headland of Kent, a black tower ringed with white amid one of the strangest landscapes on the English coast.

7.1 km S

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

9 km N

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

11.1 km N