Walmer is a village in the county of Kent.

Retail in Walmer

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

Walmer has some unmissable towns nearby like 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 some of Walmer best historic buildings to visit near Walmer.

Don't miss Viking Bay, and Dumpton Gap's beaches if visiting the area around Walmer.

There are a number of parks near to Walmer including Victoria Gardens.

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

There are a several good castles in the Walmer area like Dover Castle, Rochester Castle, Leeds Castle, and Tonbridge Castle.

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

Canterbury is a great place to visit close to Walmer if you like cities.

There are a several good ruins in the area around Walmer like Tonbridge Castle.

Walmer has some unmissable country parks nearby like Haysden Country Park, and Barton's Point Coastal Park.

Don't miss Barden Lake's lakes if visiting the area around Walmer.

There are a several good coastal parks in the area around Walmer like Barton's Point Coastal Park.

Airports to visit near Walmer include Lydd Airport.

Walmer History

There are some historic monuments around Walmer:

• Fairburn-type crane, Wellington Dock
• Dover Castle
• Sandwich town walls: section incorporated in the old East Kent Brewery (35ft long)
• Two enclosures 400yds (360m) NE of Mill House School
• Two bowl barrows on Free Down, 550m south of Hill Farm
• Fortifications, Roman lighthouse and medieval chapel on Western Heights
• A pair of acoustic mirrors at Fan Bay
• Great Mongeham Anglo-Saxon cemetery
• Sandwich town walls: section extending 40yds (36m) on N side of Strand Street
• The Fisher Gate
• Sandown Castle
• St Nicholas' Church, Oxney
• Maison Dieu
• A Springfield style enclosure, a group of associated prehistoric pits and ditches and an oval barrow 1km NNE of Langdon Abbey
• Sandwich town walls: section from New Gate to Woodnesborough Gate
• Saxon shore fort bastion, Queen Street
• Medieval manor house, Walmer
• Large cemetery N of Sangrado's Wood
• South-western section of the Roman Fort of the Classis Britannica, near Albany Place
• The Bath House, N of Market Street
• Four ring ditches on ridge of Sutton Hill
• Archcliffe Fort
• St James' Church
• Sandwich town walls: section from a point E of gasworks to site of New Gate (including The Bulwark and Mill Wall)
• St Martin's Church
• Admiralty Pier Turret 636m south east of Lord Warden House
• Artillery castle at Deal
• The Painted House, N of Market Street
• Premonstratensian monastery and associated fishponds at West Langdon
• St Martin's Priory (remains of)
• Sandwich town walls: section from Woodnesborough Gate to Canterbury Gate
• Site of medieval port, Stonar
• Sandwich town walls: section at NW corner (150ft long)
• Artillery castle at Walmer
• Bowl barrow 530m north of Langdon Abbey
• Medieval moated site at Grove Manor Farm
• Romano-Celtic temple and Iron Age site S of Worth
• Sandwich town walls: site of the Round House
• Fort Burgoyne
• A Saxon Shore fort, Roman port and associated remains at Richborough