Kent Attractions

Barnsole Vineyard

The Vineyard claims to have one of the best kept vineyards in Kent and its wines have achieved ’Quality Wine’ status. The Vineyard offers free mini tours and tastings and its wines are available for direct sale. Full guided vineyard tours are also available at a charge of £1.50 per person. You will be shown how it grows and tends the vines and how wine is made. 

Fleming Rood, Staple, Canterbury, CT3 1LGTel:  01304 812530  Email

Bewl Water

Spend a day to remember beside the south east’s largest lake, a gem of blue set within beautiful Wealden countryside. Picnic areas, passenger boat trips, lakeside walks, educational visits, woodland adventure playground, family restaurant and gift shop, visitor centre with interactive exhibition, events, cycle hire, watersports and flyfishing, fireworks & laser concert

Nr Lamberhurst, Tunbridge Wells TN3 8JH Tel: 01892 890661   Email

Biddenden Vineyards & Cider Works

Biddenden Vineyards, located 1.5 miles from the old Wealden village of Biddenden, legendary home of the Biddenden Maids, is Kent’s oldest commercial vineyard. Enjoy a tranquil walk through 22 acres of vines, visit the winery and shop, containing a 17th century cider press, and sample our line English wines, Kentish ciders and apple juice. Guided tours by arrangement.  Free Admission and Tastings.

Gribble Bridge Lane Biddenden TN27 8DF Tel:01580 291726   Email

Canterbury Tales Visitor Attraction

Step back in time tQ the middle ages in our stunning reconstruction of 4th century England. Travel from the Tabard Inn in London to St Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury with Chaucer’s colourful pilgrims and hear their tales of chivalry, romance and horror. Multilanguage and special children’s commentary available.

St. Margaret’s Street, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2TG   Tel: 01277 479227

Crabble Corn Mill

Beautiful Georgian watermill regularly shown working. Lakeside cafe serves meals produced with home-baked flour, promoting Kent’s food and drink. Guided tours, children’s quiz-sheets, video display, feeding ducks and swans. Art gallery, exhihibition s. 1000 years of milling in Dover

Lower Road, River, Near Dover CT17 0UYTel: 01304 823292   Email

Dickens World

One of the newest visitor attractions in Southeast England is Dickens World at Chatham in Kent which opened in May 2007. Its a £62 million indoor theme park complex based around the life, times and stories of one of Britain’s greatest authors Charles Dickens.

The centre includes mockups and recreations of Victorian buildings with atmospheric cobbled streets, alleys, courtyards, shops and a dockside, along with costumed characters, shop keepers and street entertainers

Other attractions include the Haunted House of Ebenezer Scrooge, Fagin’s Den for children to play in, Peggoty’s Boat House, The School Room featuring The Dreaded Disciplines of Victorian Education, Crime and Punishment, The Old Curiosity Shoppe

Leviathan Way,  Chatham Maritime,  ME4 4LL Tel: 01634 890 421   Email

Diggerland

An adventure park for all ages where you can ride, drive and operate full size constuction machinery. (other parks in Co Durham & Devon)

Meadway Valley Leisure Park, Roman Way, Strood   ME2 2NU  Tel: 08700 344437  Email

Downderry Nursery

Where lavender comes to life. Set in the peaceful beauty of a walled garden, Downderry is the home of National Plant Collections of lavender and rosemary. A sensual experience with a Lavender maze, tours and distillation

Pillar Box Lane, Hadlow, Tonbridge, TN11 9SW Tel: 01732 810081 Email

Dungeness A Power Station Visitor Centre

Visit somewhere different today! A FREE, unusual and fascinating day out for all the family! Explore the world of electricity, energy and environmental issues through the multi-media, hands-on visitor centre, don a hard hat and take a guided tour around a working nuclear power station.

Romney Marsh TN29 9PP  Tel: 01797 321815

Farming World

A wonderland of animals where children can roam freely, making friends with farmyard favourltes. Birds of Prey Centre. Exciting adventure playgrounds, and mini toddlers area. Museum and Farm Trails. Picnics and refreshments. Abundance of PYO Summer Fruits. Gifts & Home Grown Produce. Many special events.

Nash Court, Boughton, Faversham ME13 9SWTel: 01277 751144   Email

Gateway to the White Cliffs 

The Gateway to Britain, the White Cliffs of Dover are internationally famous. The ’Gateway" building introduces the visitor to the five miles of coast and countryside through imaginative display and interpretation in a pleasant Coffee Shop setting. The Gateway to the White Cliffs overlooks the Straits of Dover and is on excellent place to watch the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Opportunity to combine visit to South Foreland lighthouse nearby. Countryside events and guided walks occur throughout the year.

Langdon Cliffs, Near Dover CT16 1HJ Tel: 01304 202756   Email

The Historic Dockyard Chatham

Spectacular naval heritage site with architecture and displays spanning over 400 years of naval history. Attractions indude WWII destroyer HMS Cavalier, submarine Ocelot, RNLI Lifeboat exhibition, working Ropery, Wooden Walls - 18th century dockyard adventure and museum highlighting Chatham’s naval past.

Chatham ME4 4TZ Tel:01634 823807

The Old Lighthouse

Visit the Old Lighthouse at Dungeness in use with Trinity House until 1960. Climb the 169 steps to the giant lens, then step outside on the balcony ,view the panoramic views: on a clear day you can see France.

Dungeness TN29 9NATel 01797 321300   Email

Paddle Steamer "Kingswear Castle"

A unique part of Britain’s maritime heritage, the award winning coal fired Paddle Steamer ’Kingswear Castle offers morning, afternoon, evening and full day cruises from Chatham and Rochester. Watch the steam engine turning the paddles, enjoy a drink in the saloons or relax and watch the scenery glide by.

The Historic Dockyard, Chatham ME4 4TQTel: 01634 82764  Email

Roman Painted House

Exceptionally well preserved Roman Official Hotel (mansio) extensive intact wall paintings and elaborate under-floor heating (hypocaust). Substantial remains of Roman fort wall and bastion. All within a modern cover-building with major displays on Roman Dover.

New Street, Dover CT17 9AJ Tel: 01304 20327

South Foreland Lighthouse

The highlight of the White Cliffs. This distinctive landmark is perched high up on the White Cliffs overlooking the Straits of Dover. Built in 1843 the lighthouse was used by Marconi just over 100 years ago for early radio experiments. From here he made the World’s first ship to shore and subsequently the first international radio transmission to Wimereux in France. Learn about the history of the tower and the people associated with it in a tour that takes about 30 minutes. Combine your visit with the Gateway to the White Cliffs nearby and learn about what is special and the significance of the cliffs in a relaxing coffee shop atmosphere.

St Margaret’s at Cliffe, Nr Dover CT15 6HP Tel: 01304 202756   Email