Attractions in Canterbury & Kent

Black Mill

Smock mill built in 1815, now part of a private home: it can be seen only from outside.

• Whitstable, Canterbury & Kent

Bleak House

Clifftop house above Viking Bay, built around 1801, linked with Charles Dickens's holidays in the town.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Botany Bay

The most northerly of the Broadstairs bays, with chalk stacks on the beach.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Canterbury Castle

Ruined Norman keep beside the city walls, one of the royal castles built after the conquest, rebuilt in stone in the early 12th century.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Canterbury Cathedral

Seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury and part of the World Heritage Site; Romanesque and early Gothic, partly rebuilt after a fire in 1174.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Canterbury city walls

Medieval walls on Roman foundations that still circle much of the centre; a wall walk runs above Dane John Gardens.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Canterbury Roman Museum

Museum built around the remains of a Roman town house and its mosaics, below the modern street level.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Christ Church Gate

Grade I listed gateway leading from the city centre into the cathedral precincts.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Church of All Saints

Church of England church, one of five in the Whitstable Team Ministry.

• Whitstable, Canterbury & Kent

Church of St Mildred

Partly Anglo-Saxon church near the castle, the only pre-Norman church left inside the walls.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Crab Museum

Small independent museum about crabs, a few doors from Turner Contemporary.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Crampton Tower Museum

Small museum about the engineer Thomas Crampton and his connections with Broadstairs.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Dane John Gardens

Gardens laid out between 1790 and 1803 in the south-east corner of the walls, around the Dane John mound.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Deal Castle

Artillery fort built by Henry VIII in 1539-40, with six inner and outer bastions, now run by English Heritage.

• Deal, Canterbury & Kent

Deal Museum

Maritime and local history museum in St George's Road, close to the High Street.

• Deal, Canterbury & Kent

Deal Pier

Opened in 1957, the last fully intact leisure pier in Kent, in the middle of the seafront.

• Deal, Canterbury & Kent

Dickens House Museum

Museum in a late-Georgian cottage on Victoria Parade about Dickens and his time in Broadstairs, run by Thanet District Council.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Dover Castle

Grade I listed castle founded in the 11th century on the cliffs above the port, run by English Heritage.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

Dover Museum

Town museum in the Market Square, home of the 3,000-year-old Bronze Age Boat and the visitor information centre.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

Draper's Mill

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Dreamland Margate

Seafront amusement park whose Grade II* listed Scenic Railway wooden roller coaster opened in 1920; rides run in season.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Drop Redoubt

One of the forts of the Western Heights, defences built in the 18th and 19th centuries; a preservation society runs tours.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

Eastbridge Hospital

Founded in the 12th century to give poor pilgrims a night's lodging, on the High Street.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Fan Bay Deep Shelter

Second World War tunnels under the white cliffs, opened by the National Trust on guided tours on set days.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

Grand Shaft

Staircase shaft cut down through the cliff from the Western Heights to the town below.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

Greyfriars Chapel

Surviving building of Greyfriars, the first Franciscan friary in England.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Joss Bay

Sandy bay north of the town, with a surf school according to Visit Thanet.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Kent Museum of Freemasonry

Local history and masonic museum in St Peter's Place, between the two railway stations.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Maison Dieu

Medieval pilgrims' hospital founded in 1203, now the oldest part of Dover Town Hall, restored and open to visitors.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

Margate Caves

Caves first dug as a chalk mine and opened as a Victorian seaside attraction in 1863.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Margate Harbour Arm

The old stone pier enclosing the harbour, with cafés and bars along it and views back to the town.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Margate Main Sands

Sandy beach in front of the town, between the Harbour Arm and Dreamland.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Middle Street

The heart of the old town, lined with Georgian houses; the conservation area here was the first in Kent, in 1968.

• Deal, Canterbury & Kent

North Foreland Lighthouse

Lighthouse on North Foreland, the chalk headland at the north end of Broadstairs.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Old Palace

The Archbishop of Canterbury's residence in the city, a Grade I listed building in the cathedral precincts.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Pierremont Park

Public park in the centre of the town, near the station.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Roman lighthouse

Remains of a Roman lighthouse in the castle grounds, used as the bell tower of St Mary in Castro.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

Samphire Hoe

Country park at the foot of the cliffs west of Dover, made from chalk dug out for the Channel Tunnel.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

Sandown Castle

Remains of the northernmost of Henry VIII's three Downs forts, at the end of the seafront.

• Deal, Canterbury & Kent

Shell Grotto

Underground passage and chamber lined with about 4.6 million shells, rediscovered around 1835; nobody knows who made it or when.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

South Foreland Lighthouse

Grade II listed lighthouse at St Margaret's Bay, run by the National Trust, about a 2-mile walk from the white cliffs car park.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

St Augustine's Abbey

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

St Dunstan's Church

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

St George's Church

• Deal, Canterbury & Kent

St Martin's Church

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

St Mary in Castro

Anglo-Saxon church inside the castle grounds, beside the Roman lighthouse.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

Stone Bay

Sandy bay below the cliffs, just north of Viking Bay.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Tankerton Slopes

Grassy slopes above the beach huts at Tankerton, a protected wildlife site with views over the Street.

• Whitstable, Canterbury & Kent

The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge

Museum, art gallery and library on the High Street; it also houses the Canterbury visitor information centre.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

The Westgate

The largest surviving medieval city gate in England, built of Kentish ragstone around 1379; the road still runs between its drum towers.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Timeball Tower

Waterfront tower whose rooftop timeball, set up in 1855, gave Greenwich Mean Time to ships offshore; now a museum.

• Deal, Canterbury & Kent

Tudor House

Timber-framed Tudor house in Margate Old Town.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Turner Contemporary

Contemporary art gallery on the harbour, named after J. M. W. Turner, who went to school in Margate and returned throughout his life.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Viking Bay

Broadstairs' central sandy bay, with beach huts and children's rides, overlooked by Bleak House.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Walmer Castle

Henry VIII artillery fort with four round bastions and gardens, run by English Heritage, south of Deal on the seafront.

• Deal, Canterbury & Kent

Walpole Bay Tidal Pool

Large sea-water bathing pool on the foreshore at Cliftonville.

• Margate and Broadstairs, Canterbury & Kent

Westgate Gardens

Riverside gardens on the Stour next to the Westgate.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

White Cliffs of Dover

Chalk cliffs up to 110 metres high on both sides of the town; the National Trust looks after the stretch east of the port.

• Dover, Canterbury & Kent

Whitstable Castle

Castellated manor house, also called Tankerton Castle, between the harbour and Tankerton; Visit Canterbury suggests it for afternoon tea.

• Whitstable, Canterbury & Kent

Whitstable Harbour

Working harbour with fishing boats, food and gift huts, the South Quay Shed and boat trips.

• Whitstable, Canterbury & Kent