Leybourne Lakes Country Park

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Leybourne Lakes Country Park is near Snodland, in Kent, England. The park, which opened in 2004, was created from disused gravel pits that have been flooded and landscaped to make fishing and wildlife lakes. ()

Created: 2004Elevation: 10 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 51°18'59"N, 0°26'40"E

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

Nearby attractions include: Kent Life, Kit's Coty House, Mytime Active at Cobtree Manor Park Golf Course, North Downs Way.

3 miSE
Museum, Farm
Kent Life, Maidstone
76 min walk • Kent Life is an English open-air museum located at Sandling, next to Allington Locks, on the east bank of the River Medway.
2.5 miE
Historical place, Ruins, Museum
Kit's Coty House, Aylesford
65 min walk • Kit's Coty House or Kit's Coty is a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent. Constructed circa 4000 BCE, during the Early Neolithic period of British prehistory, today it survives in a ruined state.
2.9 miE
51°18'12"N • 0°30'30"E
Mytime Active at Cobtree Manor Park Golf Course, Maidstone
75 min walk • Golf
2.2 miSW
Hiking, Hiking trail
North Downs Way
57 min walk • The North Downs Way National Trail is a long-distance path in southern England, opened in 1978. It runs from Farnham to Dover, past Guildford, Dorking, Merstham, Otford and Rochester, along the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Kent Downs AONB.
2.4 miE
Museum
Medway Megaliths, Maidstone
62 min walk • The Medway Megaliths, sometimes termed the Kentish Megaliths, are a group of Early Neolithic chambered long barrows and other megalithic monuments located in the lower valley of the River Medway in Kent, South-East England.
2.7 miSW
Architecture, Tower
St Leonard's Tower, West Malling
69 min walk • St Leonard's Tower is a probable Norman keep in West Malling, in the county of Kent, England. The tower was probably built by Gundulf, the Bishop of Rochester, between 1077 and 1108. It was a three-storey building, constructed of local stone, and would have stood at least 22 metres high.
2.6 miNE
Archaeological site
Blue Bell Hill, Kent Downs
66 min walk • Blue Bell Hill is a chalk hill between Maidstone and Rochester in the English county of Kent. It overlooks the River Medway and is part of the North Downs. Settlements on the hill include the Walderslade suburb of Chatham and the villages of Blue Bell Hill and Kit's Coty.
1.5 miSE
Monastery
Aylesford Priory, Maidstone
39 min walk • Aylesford Priory, or "The Friars" was founded in 1242 when members of the Carmelite order arrived in England from Mount Carmel in the Holy Land. Richard de Grey, a crusader, sponsored them, and conveyed to the order a parcel of land located on his manor in Aylesford in Kent.
1.9 miS
Park
Ditton Quarry, Maidstone
49 min walk • Ditton Quarry is a 5.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Ditton, on the north-western outskirts of Maidstone in Kent. It is owned and managed by Ditton Parish Council. This former quarry has grassland and scrub, with diverse fauna including butterflies, foxes, rabbits, frogs, toads and newts. The meadow is rich in wild flowers.
2.5 miE
Archaeological site
Little Kit's Coty House
63 min walk • Little Kit's Coty House, also known as Lower Kit's Coty House and the Countless Stones, is a chambered long barrow located near to the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent.
2.2 miE
Museum, Archaeological site
Coffin Stone
57 min walk • The Coffin Stone, also known as the Coffin and the Table Stone, is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Now lying horizontally, the stone probably once stood upright nearby.