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Photo of Howletts Wild Animal Park, a visitor attraction near Fordwich, Kent, south east England.

Howletts Wild Animal Park© David Anstiss / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Snowdown StationSnowdown

28 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo along the North Downs Way, a 153-mile National Trail running from Farnham to Dover, south east England.Highlight

North Downs Way

National Trail

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

1.2 km SW · Kent & Surrey

Photo of the Kent Downs, a National Landscape in Kent, south east England.Highlight

Kent Downs

National Landscape near Charing

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

1.3 km SW

Photo of The Dog at Wingham, a gastropub near Wingham (near Canterbury), Kent, south east England.Highlight

The Dog at Wingham

Gastropub · With rooms near Wingham (near Canterbury)

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

6.3 km N

Photo of The Bridge Arms, a gastropub in Kent, south east England.Highlight

The Bridge Arms

Gastropub near Bridge

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

7 km NW

Photo of Howletts Wild Animal Park, a visitor attraction near Fordwich, Kent, south east England.Highlight

Howletts Wild Animal Park

Attraction near Fordwich

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

7.2 km NW

Photo of Kearsney Abbey Gardens, a Grade II registered house & garden near Elham, Kent, south east England.Highlight

Kearsney Abbey Gardens

House & garden near Elham

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

8.4 km SE

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Goodnestone Park Gardens

House & garden near Wingham

A walled garden around a Georgian house where Jane Austen once stayed.

3.5 km N

Simpsons Wine Estate

Vineyard near Barham

Barham estate making still and sparkling wine on the Downs, with a tasting room and tours through the vines.

3.8 km W

Chillenden Windmill

Windmill near Chillenden

Open-trestle post mill of 1868, one of the last of its kind, standing alone in fields near Sandwich.

3.9 km NE

Photo of Wingham, a village in Kent, south east England.

Wingham

Village

Village of a wide tree-lined main street of medieval and Georgian houses on the old road to Sandwich.

6.4 km N · Kent

Photo of St John's Commandery, Swingfield, a preceptory near Elham, Kent, south east England.

St John's Commandery, Swingfield

Preceptory · Hospitaller near Elham

Knights Hospitaller preceptory near Swingfield on the Kent downs, whose 13th-century flint chapel was later turned into a farmhouse.

7.3 km S

Photo of Elham: Kingpost, a house & garden in Kent, south east England.

Elham: Kingpost

House & garden near Elham

A National Trust place in Kent.

9.9 km SW

Elham

Village

Village in the wooded Elham Valley between Canterbury and Folkestone, with a square of old houses and a large church.

9.9 km SW · Kent

Everything else within 10 km (15) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.