The Swale is a Area in the county of Kent.

Retail in The Swale

There are great places to visit near The Swale including some great towns, historic buildings, beaches, parks, museums, castles, shopping centres, cities, ruins, country parks, lakes, coastal parks and airports.

Faversham, Broadstairs, St Peter's, Ramsgate, Chatham, Margate, and Dover are great places to visit near The Swale if you like towns.

The area around The Swale boasts some of the best historic buildings including Nuckell's Alsmshouses, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Palace Cinema, Clock Tower Broadstairs, The Look Out House, Bleak House, and Home for Smack Boys.

There are a several good beaches in the The Swale area like Viking Bay, and Dumpton Gap.

The Swale is near some unmissable parks like Victoria Gardens,

There are a several good museums in the area around The Swale like Ramsgate Maritime Museum.

Castles to visit near The Swale include Dover Castle, Rochester Castle, Leeds Castle, and Tonbridge Castle.

The area around The Swale boasts some of the best shopping centres including Royal Victoria Place, and Bluewater Shopping Centre.

The Swale is near some unmissable cities like Canterbury,

Tonbridge Castle is one of The Swale's best, nearby ruins to visit in The Swale.

Haysden Country Park, and Barton's Point Coastal Park are great places to visit near The Swale if you like country parks.

Lakes to visit near The Swale include Barden Lake.

Barton's Point Coastal Park is one of The Swale's best, nearby coastal parks to visit in The Swale.

Lydd Airport is one of The Swale's best, nearby airports to visit in The Swale.

The Swale History

There are some historic monuments around The Swale:

• Queenborough Lines
• Coastal artillery defences on the Isle of Grain, immediately east and south east of Grain village
• 'Castle Rough' Medieval moated site
• Chart gunpowder mills
• Nunnery at Minster Abbey
• Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion
• The site of St Saviour's Abbey, including the remains of an Iron Age farmstead and Faversham Roman villa
• Oare gunpowder works
• A Romano-British mausoleum, an associated Romano-British building and a parish church at Stone-by-Faversham
• Sheerness defences
• Queenborough Castle
• Shurland House: early 16th century Great House and associated remains
• The Maison Dieu, a 16th century house incorporating part of a medieval hospital
• World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite (TS2), 300m east of Chetney Cottages
• Murston Old Church, Sittingbourne