Heron Trail

#5066 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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The Heron Trail is 15+1⁄2-mile long cycling trail that links with National Cycle Route 1 between Higham and Strood, then it heads around the Hoo Peninsula via Regional route 18 passing through 'Hoo St Werburgh', 'High Halstow' and 'Cliffe' before returning to Higham. It has a mixture of rural and maritime interest, with views of the River Medway and River Thames. ()

Length: 15.5 miCoordinates: 51°25'44"N, 0°27'55"E

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Heron Trail – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Upnor Castle, Coalhouse Fort, Cooling Castle, Rochester Bridge.

3.1 miSE
Museum, Military museum, Forts and castles
Upnor Castle, Gillingham
79 min walk • Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent. It is in the village of Upnor, opposite and a short distance downriver from the Chatham Dockyard, at one time a key naval facility.
2.9 miNW
Forts and castles, Historical place
Coalhouse Fort
74 min walk • Coalhouse Fort is an artillery fort in the eastern English county of Essex. It was built in the 1860s to guard the lower Thames from seaborne attack.
3.1 miNE
Entertainment, Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Cooling Castle, Gillingham
79 min walk • Cooling Castle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle in the village of Cooling, Kent on the Hoo Peninsula about 6 miles north of Rochester.
3 miSE
Bridge
Rochester Bridge, Gillingham
78 min walk • Rochester Bridge in Rochester, Medway was for centuries the lowest fixed crossing of the River Medway in South East England.
2.4 miN
Forts and castles
Cliffe Fort
63 min walk • Cliffe Fort is a disused artillery fort built in the 1860s to guard the entrance to the Thames from seaborne attack. Constructed during a period of tension with France, it stands on the south bank of the river at the entrance to Cliffe Creek in the Cliffe marshes on the Hoo Peninsula in North Kent.
2.7 miSW
Park
Shorne Wood Country Park
69 min walk • Shorne Wood Country Park is located between Strood and Gravesend, in the English county of Kent. It was once part of a large estate and then later passed to the county council to be used as a country park.
1.8 miNW
Forts and castles
Shornemead Fort
47 min walk • Shornemead Fort is a now-disused artillery fort that was built in the 1860s to guard the entrance to the Thames from seaborne attack.
1.7 miSW
Forest
Great Crabbles Wood, Strood
44 min walk • Great Crabbles Wood is a 33-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Rochester in Kent. Most of the wood is mixed coppice, with sweet chestnut dominant and oak standards.
2.8 miSW
Forest
Shorne and Ashenbank Woods, Kent Downs
73 min walk • Shorne and Ashenbank Woods is a 197.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Rochester and Gravesend in Kent. Part of it is Shorne Wood Country Park.
2.7 miSE
Area
Frindsbury, Gillingham
68 min walk • Frindsbury, sometimes called Frinsbury, is part of the Medway Towns conurbation in Kent, southern England. It lies on the opposite side of the River Medway to Rochester, and at various times in its history has been considered fully or partially part of the City of Rochester.
2.8 miS
Forest
Cobham Woods, Strood
72 min walk • Cobham Woods is a 242.7 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the western outskirts of Rochester in Kent. It is in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and part of it is managed by the National Trust.