The Swale is a Area in the county of Kent.

Retail in The Swale

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

Faversham, Broadstairs, St Peter's, Ramsgate, Chatham, Margate, and Dover are some of The Swale best towns to visit near The Swale.

There are a number of historic buildings near The Swale including Nuckell's Alsmshouses, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Palace Cinema, Clock Tower Broadstairs, The Look Out House, Bleak House, and Home for Smack Boys.

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

Parks to visit near The Swale include Victoria Gardens.

There are a number of museums near to The Swale including Ramsgate Maritime Museum.

Dover Castle, Rochester Castle, Leeds Castle, and Tonbridge Castle are great places to visit near The Swale if you like castles.

Don't miss Royal Victoria Place, and Bluewater Shopping Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around The Swale.

Cities to visit near The Swale include Canterbury.

The area close to The Swale boasts some of the best ruins including Tonbridge Castle.

The Swale's best nearby country parks can be found at Haysden Country Park, and Barton's Point Coastal Park.

There are a several good lakes in the area around The Swale like Barden Lake.

Barton's Point Coastal Park is a great place to visit close to The Swale if you like coastal parks.

The area around The Swale's best airports can be found at Lydd Airport.

The Swale History

There are some historic monuments around The Swale:

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