Walks and treks

White Cliffs of Dover

United Kingdom Kent Dover

White Cliffs of Dover
Photo: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The famous chalk cliffs above the English Channel, a symbol of Britain for travellers arriving by sea. A walk along the top from the National Trust visitor centre gives views of the busy port and, on clear days, the coast of France.


Continue east to South Foreland Lighthouse, where Marconi made early radio experiments, for tea and cake. Fan Bay Deep Shelter, a set of wartime tunnels in the cliffs, can be toured.

Comments

No comments yet.

Buildings

Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury, Kent

The mother church of the Anglican Communion and one of England's oldest Christian sites, founded in 597.

Natural features

Sissinghurst Castle Garden

Sissinghurst, Kent

One of the most famous gardens in England, created in the 1930s by the writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson around the ruins of…

Historic sites

Bodiam Castle

Northiam, East Sussex

A storybook castle with round towers and battlements, rising straight out of a wide moat.

Historic sites

Scotney Castle

Lamberhurst, Kent

The romantic ruin of a 14th-century moated castle, set as the centrepiece of a picturesque garden by the Hussey family when they built a new house on…

Historic sites

Bateman's

Burwash, East Sussex

The 17th-century sandstone house in the Sussex countryside where Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, lived from 1902 until his death.

Historic sites

The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent

An elegant Georgian colonnade in the old spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, built around the Chalybeate Spring, whose iron-rich water was discovered …