Minster Leas

Thames Estuary island with Minster Abbey, clay cliffs full of fossils, the Elmley marshes' birds and Leysdown's beaches

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

0.1 km NW · spans 24 counties

Around Kent's Roman-era coastline from Gravesend to Hastings — a shore the sea has since abandoned for miles at a stretch.

6.1 km SW · Kent & East Sussex

The longest pleasure pier in the world, stretching 1.3 miles into the Thames Estuary with its own little railway to the end.

12.8 km NW

Flint ruins of a small chapel, Saxon and later, beside Watling Street outside Faversham, its chancel raised on a 4th-century Roman mausoleum.

13.5 km S

Market town of some 500 listed buildings around a creek, home to Shepherd Neame, Britain's oldest brewer.

14.2 km SE · Kent