Places to explore near Canterbury

Pilgrim country: orchards, vineyards and chalk downs between Farnham and the white cliffs of Dover.

0.1 km SW · Kent & Surrey

Mother church of English Christianity, soaring Gothic.

0.2 km E

Riverside pub in England's smallest town near Canterbury, ambitious modern cooking.

3.7 km NE

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

3.9 km S

Michelin-starred Kent village pub from the Fordwich Arms team, cited by NatGeo and olive.

4.9 km SE

A wooded animal park near Canterbury known for the largest captive gorilla group in Britain and its breeding herds.

5.1 km E

Edwardian terraced gardens with a Japanese rock garden and a hillside vineyard.

8.6 km W

Square of Tudor and Jacobean houses between a Jacobean manor and a flint church, at the head of the Stour gap.

9.2 km SW · Kent

Timber-framed East Kent village inn with rooms, on the road between Canterbury and Sandwich.

9.3 km E

Working oyster town of weatherboarded fishermen's huts, seafood shacks and a long shingle beach.

9.8 km NW · Kent

A wood on the Downs above Selling with a raised timber lookout, 'the Pulpit', giving a view to the Thames estuary.

10.5 km W

Long-established Kentish food hall and kitchen on the edge of Faversham, named Food Hall of the Year 2024.

12.7 km W

Smock mill on the edge of the old Wantsum marshes at Sarre, restored to grind, with a bakery.

13.1 km NE

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

13.5 km NW

A crown cut into the down by agricultural students in 1902 for Edward VII's coronation, and still lit for royal occasions.

13.7 km SW

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

13.7 km W · Kent

Reculver Saxon Shore fort, Anglo-Saxon monastery and associated remains

13.8 km NE

A Georgian mansion with a walled garden, pinetum and a noted collection of clocks.

16.4 km W

Restored smock mill with its wooden machinery intact, on the edge of Sandwich, open on summer days.

17.3 km E

Towering 3rd-century fort walls at the traditional landing place of the AD 43 Roman invasion, with the base of a great triumphal arch.

17.3 km E

Medieval Cinque Port left two miles inland by silt, with Fisher Gate, the Barbican and a 1300 Magna Carta in its Guildhall

18 km E · Kent

A Victorian public park of lakes and lawns in a chalk valley near Dover.

19.6 km SE

A modern galloping horse cut in 2003 on Cheriton Hill, looking down over the mouth of the Channel Tunnel.

20.3 km S

Family North Downs vineyard above Charing, named Best Small Cellar Door at the first WineGB Cellar Door Awards in 2025.

20.5 km SW

A Victorian garden known for its towering clipped yew cloud hedges.

20.6 km W

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

23 km S

Seafront town of narrow Georgian streets and a Tudor castle, with a pier and a conservation-area old quarter.

23.2 km E · Kent

A nature park built in the 1990s from chalk dug for the Channel Tunnel.

23.4 km SE

Tudor artillery fort shaped like a rose.

23.5 km E

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

23.6 km S

A grand clifftop promenade above Folkestone, its lawns and bandstand looking out across the Channel.

23.6 km S

Margate's restored seaside amusement park, home to the Grade II* Scenic Railway, Britain's oldest roller coaster.

23.7 km NE

Vast clifftop fortress guarding England's gateway.

23.9 km SE

Folkestone's restored railway pier, now a walk of food stalls and bars out to a lighthouse and beacon.

23.9 km S

Artillery castle at Walmer

24.1 km E

A stark David Chipperfield gallery on the Margate seafront, on the spot where Turner lodged to paint the light.

24.4 km NE

The clifftop walk from Langdon Cliffs east towards South Foreland, chalk falling to the sea with France on the horizon.

24.4 km SE

An underground passage in Margate lined with 4.6 million shells in mysterious mosaics, its origin still unexplained.

24.7 km NE

A large chalk cross cut into the North Downs in 1922 as a memorial to the fallen of the First World War.

24.8 km W

The National Trust's stretch of the White Cliffs of Dover, with a breezy clifftop walk out to a lighthouse above the Channel

24.8 km SE

Twelfth-century stone collecting house on a Canterbury hillside, where tunnels gathered spring water to be piped down to St Augustine's Abbey.

1.2 km E

A National Trust place in Kent.

1.7 km W

Britain's smallest town by charter, a former Canterbury river port on the Stour with a timber town hall.

3.6 km NE · Kent

Brick country dining pub down winding lanes near Faversham, with a large orchard garden.

7.7 km NW

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

9.1 km NW · Kent & East Sussex

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

9.2 km NW · spans 24 counties

Smock mill above Herne, among the best preserved in Kent and still able to grind on open days.

9.3 km NE