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.

There are a number of towns near The Swale including Faversham, Broadstairs, St Peter's, Ramsgate, Chatham, Margate, and Dover.

There are a several good historic buildings in the The Swale area like Nuckell's Alsmshouses, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Palace Cinema, Clock Tower Broadstairs, The Look Out House, Bleak House, and Home for Smack Boys.

The Swale's best nearby beaches can be found at Viking Bay, and Dumpton Gap.

There are a number of parks near to The Swale including Victoria Gardens.

The Swale is near some unmissable museums like Ramsgate Maritime Museum,

There are a number of castles near The Swale including Dover Castle, Rochester Castle, Leeds Castle, and Tonbridge Castle.

There are a number of shopping centres near The Swale including Royal Victoria Place, and Bluewater Shopping Centre.

The area close to The Swale boasts some of the best cities including Canterbury.

Ruins to visit near The Swale include Tonbridge Castle.

The area around The Swale features a number of interesting country parks including Haysden Country Park, and Barton's Point Coastal Park.

The Swale is near some unmissable lakes like Barden Lake,

Coastal Parks to visit near The Swale include Barton's Point Coastal Park.

There are a number of airports near to The Swale including Lydd Airport.

The Swale History

There are some historic monuments around The Swale:

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