Minster Abbey, Sheppey

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

0.5 km NE · spans 24 counties

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

12.2 km S

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

12.9 km SE · Kent

Part of the hospital and royal lodge Henry III founded beside Watling Street in 1234, now housing Roman finds dug up locally.

13.1 km S

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

13.5 km S

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

14.1 km NW