Windmill Quay is a Area in the county of Kent.

Retail in Windmill Quay

There are great places to visit near Windmill Quay 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 Windmill Quay including Faversham, Broadstairs, St Peter's, Ramsgate, Chatham, Margate, and Dover.

The area around Windmill Quay 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 number of beaches near Windmill Quay including Viking Bay, and Dumpton Gap.

Parks to visit near Windmill Quay include Victoria Gardens.

The area around Windmill Quay's best museums can be found at Ramsgate Maritime Museum.

Dover Castle, Rochester Castle, Leeds Castle, and Tonbridge Castle are some of Windmill Quay best castles to visit near Windmill Quay.

Windmill Quay's best nearby shopping centres can be found at Royal Victoria Place, and Bluewater Shopping Centre.

There are a several good cities in the area around Windmill Quay like Canterbury.

Ruins to visit near Windmill Quay include Tonbridge Castle.

The area around Windmill Quay boasts some of the best country parks including Haysden Country Park, and Barton's Point Coastal Park.

Barden Lake is a great place to visit close to Windmill Quay if you like lakes.

The area around Windmill Quay's best coastal parks can be found at Barton's Point Coastal Park.

There are a several good airports in the area around Windmill Quay like Lydd Airport.

Windmill Quay History

There are some historic monuments around Windmill Quay:

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