Great Norwood is a Village in the county of Kent.

Retail in Great Norwood

There are great places to visit near Great Norwood including some great towns, historic buildings, beaches, parks, museums, castles, shopping centres, cities, ruins, country parks, lakes, coastal parks and airports.

Towns to visit near Great Norwood include Faversham, Broadstairs, St Peter's, Ramsgate, Chatham, Margate, and Dover.

Nuckell's Alsmshouses, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Palace Cinema, Clock Tower Broadstairs, The Look Out House, Bleak House, and Home for Smack Boys are great places to visit near Great Norwood if you like historic buildings.

Great Norwood has some unmissable beaches nearby like Viking Bay, and Dumpton Gap.

Victoria Gardens is a great place to visit close to Great Norwood if you like parks.

Ramsgate Maritime Museum is one of Great Norwood's best, nearby museums to visit in Great Norwood.

There are a number of castles near Great Norwood including Dover Castle, Rochester Castle, Leeds Castle, and Tonbridge Castle.

There are a several good shopping centres in the Great Norwood area like Royal Victoria Place, and Bluewater Shopping Centre.

There are a number of cities near to Great Norwood including Canterbury.

Great Norwood is near some unmissable ruins like Tonbridge Castle,

Country Parks to visit near Great Norwood include Haysden Country Park, and Barton's Point Coastal Park.

Places near Great Norwood feature a number of interesting lakes including Barden Lake.

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

There are a number of airports near to Great Norwood including Lydd Airport.

Great Norwood History

There are some historic monuments around Great Norwood:

• A Romano-British villa at Boxted
• Binbury motte and bailey castle
• Fort Darnet, Darnet Ness
• Ringwork and baileys at Church Farm
• 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 (TS3) at Wetham Green, 460m north of Red Brick Cottage
• Murston Old Church, Sittingbourne
• Queenborough Lines
• World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite (TS2), 300m east of Chetney Cottages
• Queenborough Castle
• Sheerness defences
• 'Castle Rough' Medieval moated site
• A Romano-Celtic temple at Boxted
• Medieval moated site, Ripple Manor
• Coastal artillery defences on the Isle of Grain, immediately east and south east of Grain village