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.

The Swale's best nearby towns can be found at Faversham, Broadstairs, St Peter's, Ramsgate, Chatham, Margate, and Dover.

Nuckell's Alsmshouses, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Palace Cinema, Clock Tower Broadstairs, The Look Out House, Bleak House, and Home for Smack Boys are some of The Swale best historic buildings to visit near The Swale.

Beaches to visit near The Swale include Viking Bay, and Dumpton Gap.

Victoria Gardens is one of The Swale's best, nearby parks to visit in The Swale.

Museums to visit near The Swale include Ramsgate Maritime Museum.

Dover Castle, Rochester Castle, Leeds Castle, and Tonbridge Castle are great places to visit near The Swale if you like castles.

Shopping Centres to visit near The Swale include Royal Victoria Place, and Bluewater Shopping Centre.

Canterbury is a great place to visit close to The Swale if you like cities.

The area close to The Swale boasts some of the best ruins including Tonbridge Castle.

The Swale has some unmissable country parks nearby like Haysden Country Park, and Barton's Point Coastal Park.

Places near The Swale feature a number of interesting lakes including Barden Lake.

There are a several good coastal parks in the area around The Swale like Barton's Point Coastal Park.

Lydd Airport is a great place to visit close to The Swale if you like airports.

The Swale History

There are some historic monuments around The Swale:

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