St Mary's Bay (Kent)

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

5.6 km N

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

6.3 km S

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

6.3 km W

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

7.2 km N

Marsh church with a fine Tudor alabaster monument, on the road across Walland Marsh.

8.8 km W

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

9.8 km S