Riverside Country Park, Gillingham

Name: Riverside Country Park
Address: Gillingham, United Kingdom

#12 among attractions in Gillingham

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Riverside Country Park is a large coastal public park, situated alongside the River Medway estuary between Gillingham and Rainham. The park covers about 100 hectares - approximately 247 acres. There are a variety of natural habitats within the park, including mudflats and salt marsh, ponds and reed-beds, grassland and scrub, which provide a haven for wildlife. ()

Created: 1970Elevation: 7 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 51°23'16"N, 0°35'34"E

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Gillingham (Grange)Gillingham United Kingdom

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Riverside Country Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Berengrave Chalk Pit, Fort Hoo, PS Medway Queen, Grange Redoubt.

1.4 miSE
Park
Berengrave Chalk Pit, Rainham
35 min walk • Berengrave Chalk Pit is a 9.5-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Rainham in Kent. It is owned and managed by Medway Council. There is a small lake in a disused chalk pit, and other habitats are scrub, woodland and reedbeds, which flood an area of willow carr.
1.2 miNW
Forts and castles
Fort Hoo, Gillingham
31 min walk • Hoo Fort is a nineteenth-century military installation on the River Medway in Kent, England, that formed part of the defences of Chatham Naval Dockyard.
1.4 miNW
Ship
PS Medway Queen, Gillingham
36 min walk • The PS Medway Queen is a paddle driven steamship, the only mobile estuary paddle steamer left in the United Kingdom. She was one of the "little ships of Dunkirk", making a record seven trips and rescuing 7,000 men in the evacuation of Dunkirk.
0.4 miW
Forts and castles
Grange Redoubt, Gillingham
12 min walk • Grange Redoubt, also known as one of the two Twydall Redoubts, was constructed in 1885. It was not included in the original list of defensive structures proposed by the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom in 1860, but was conceived later and implemented as an experimental redoubt as opposed to a more substantial fort.
0.6 miSW
Forts and castles
Woodlands Redoubt, Gillingham
17 min walk • Woodlands Redoubt, also known as one of the two Twydall Redoubts, was constructed in 1888.