Spitend is a Area in the county of Kent.

Retail in Spitend

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

The area around Spitend features a number of interesting towns including 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 Spitend if you like historic buildings.

Viking Bay, and Dumpton Gap are great places to visit near Spitend if you like beaches.

The area close to Spitend boasts some of the best parks including Victoria Gardens.

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

Castles to visit near Spitend include Dover Castle, Rochester Castle, Leeds Castle, and Tonbridge Castle.

Spitend has some unmissable shopping centres nearby like Royal Victoria Place, and Bluewater Shopping Centre.

There are a number of cities near to Spitend including Canterbury.

Don't miss Tonbridge Castle's ruins if visiting the area around Spitend.

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

The area close to Spitend boasts some of the best lakes including Barden Lake.

Places near Spitend feature a number of interesting coastal parks including Barton's Point Coastal Park.

Lydd Airport is one of Spitend's best, nearby airports to visit in Spitend.

Spitend History

There are some historic monuments around Spitend:

• Oare gunpowder works
• A Romano-British mausoleum, an associated Romano-British building and a parish church at Stone-by-Faversham
• The site of St Saviour's Abbey, including the remains of an Iron Age farmstead and Faversham Roman villa
• Queenborough Castle
• 'Castle Rough' Medieval moated site
• Medieval moated site at Sayes Court
• Murston Old Church, Sittingbourne
• Sheerness defences
• Chart gunpowder mills
• The Maison Dieu, a 16th century house incorporating part of a medieval hospital
• Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion
• Shurland House: early 16th century Great House and associated remains
• Queenborough Lines
• World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite (TS2), 300m east of Chetney Cottages
• Nunnery at Minster Abbey