Places to explore near Maidstone

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

2.2 km NE

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

3.8 km NE · Kent & Surrey

Medway village of a medieval ragstone bridge, a working friary and old timbered houses.

4.9 km NW · Kent

Storybook castle set on its own island lake.

7.4 km E

Medway city of a Norman keep and cathedral, its High Street thick with Dickens associations.

13 km N · Kent

Seat of England's second-oldest bishopric, founded in 604, with a Norman west front and a large crypt, across the green from the castle.

13.1 km N

Norman keep beside England's second-oldest cathedral.

13.2 km N

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

14.3 km E

Wooded ridges, sunken lanes and deep stream valleys across the old iron country of the south-east

15 km SW

Rare six-sided smock mill standing on Meopham Green, a landmark on the road south of Gravesend.

15.8 km NW

Wealden village of timber-framed and white-boarded houses around a church known as the Barn of Kent.

17.5 km SE · Kent

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

17.8 km E

Vita Sackville-West's famous romantic garden rooms.

17.9 km S

Perfectly preserved medieval moated manor.

18.2 km W

Weald hilltop village rising from a duck pond to a big church, scene of a 1747 battle with smugglers

18.5 km S · Kent

Marshland church with a carved medieval oak screen, near the Gad's Hill home of Charles Dickens.

19.2 km N

Wealden weavers' village of a timbered cloth street, known for the medieval Biddenden Maids charity.

19.3 km SE · Kent

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

19.7 km NE

The tallest smock mill in England, white weatherboarded and still milling flour on the edge of Cranbrook.

19.7 km S

A steep National Trust hillside east of Sevenoaks with a bench and a broad view south over the Weald.

20.4 km W

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

21.3 km E

Ruined moated castle in a picture garden.

21.4 km SW

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

22 km E

Sprawling calendar house in a deer park.

22.3 km W

Premonstratensian Abbey at Bayham

22.3 km SW

A hillside garden of rhododendrons and azaleas around a walled rose garden.

22.4 km W

The national conifer collection, laced with waymarked trails and a treetop cycle route.

22.6 km S

Star-shaped 17th-century artillery fort on the Thames, England's best-preserved of its kind.

22.7 km NW

Village dining pub run by the Tanner brothers just outside Tunbridge Wells.

23.4 km SW

Darent village with a ford and hump-backed bridge below the ruins of a Norman castle.

24.4 km NW · Kent

Kent's river navigation, locking down the wooded Medway valley from Tonbridge to the tidal limit at Allington.

0.6 km W · Kent

A National Trust place in Kent.

3.6 km S

Village in a steep wooded valley of old cloth-fulling ponds and a packhorse causeway south of Maidstone.

3.6 km S · Kent

A National Trust place in Kent.

4 km SE

A country park in Kent.

4.7 km NE

Along the sandy ridge below the chalk from Haslemere to Hamstreet, through the wooded hills of two protected landscapes to the edge of Romney Marsh.

5.4 km S · Surrey & Kent

Neolithic burial chamber of three upright sarsens under a huge capstone on the downs above the Medway, with the tumbled Countless Stones nearby.

5.4 km N

A country park in Kent.

6.1 km W

A country park in Kent.

7 km NW