Stour Valley Walk

#340 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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The Stour Valley Walk is a recreational walking route that follows the River Stour, through the Low Weald and Kent Downs, from its source at Lenham to its estuary at Pegwell Bay. ()

Coordinates: 51°12'42"N, 0°58'31"E

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Stour Valley Walk – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Chilham Castle, No Man's Orchard, Conningbrook Lakes Country Park, Willesborough Windmill.

2.3 miN
Forts and castles
Chilham Castle
58 min walk • Chilham Castle is a Jacobean manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The keep is of Norman origin and dates to 1174; manor house was completed in 1616 for Sir Dudley Digges.
4.8 miNE
Park
No Man's Orchard, Chartham
123 min walk • No Man's Orchard is a 4.1-hectare Local Nature Reserve west of Canterbury in Kent. It is owned by Chartham and Harbledown Parish Councils and managed by the Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership.
5.1 miSW
Park
Conningbrook Lakes Country Park, Ashford
130 min walk • Conningbrook Lakes Country Park is a 34.3-hectare nature reserve in Kennington, Ashford in Kent. It is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. There are three lakes in these former gravel pits, and other habitats are ponds, a river, grassland and wet woodland.
5.7 miSW
Museum, Architecture
Willesborough Windmill, Ashford
146 min walk • New Mill is a Grade II* listed smock mill in Hythe Road, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent. It stands just west of junction 10 of the M20 motorway. It was built in 1869 and is now a museum open to the public.
3.6 miNE
Church
Church of St Mary, Chartham
91 min walk • St Mary's Church is in the village of Chartham, Kent, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Canterbury. Constructed between 1285 and circa 1305, with a later tower of the fourteenth century. In 1875, the church was restored by George Edmund Street.
4.5 miN
Park
South Blean, Chartham
115 min walk • South Blean is a 329-hectare nature reserve near Chartham Hatch, west of Canterbury in Kent. It is owned and managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust. This site has native woodland, conifer plantations, heath, and bog.
4 miSW
Church
Saint Christopher's Church, Kent Downs
103 min walk • Saint Christopher's Church is a mediaeval Grade II listed church in Boughton Lees near Ashford, Kent, part of the Church of England. The building was originally a mediaeval hall house. It was later a barn and the village school. In the 1950s, it was adopted as a chapel of ease.
3.1 miW
Church
All Saints' Church
79 min walk • All Saints' Church is a 13th-century pilgrims' Grade I listed church in Boughton Aluph near Ashford, Kent. It is part of the Church of England.
2.9 miW
Archaeological site
Jacket's Field Long Barrow, Kent Downs
73 min walk • Jacket's Field Long Barrow is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Boughton Aluph in the south-eastern English county of Kent. It was probably constructed in the fourth millennium BCE, during Britain's Early Neolithic period.
4 miSE
Park
Spong Wood, Kent Downs
103 min walk • Spong Wood is a 18-hectare nature reserve west of Stelling Minnis in Kent. It is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. Common trees in this coppiced wood include sweet chestnut, oak, hornbeam and hazel. Orchids can be found on the high slopes and ramsons lower down. There is access by footpaths to its western corner.
1.5 miSW
Park
Olantigh, Kent Downs
40 min walk • Olantigh is a house 1 mile north of Wye in Kent, southeast England. It includes a garden of 20 acres. The hamlet in which the property stands is Little Olantigh.