Walking Breaks
This corner of Kent has lots of interesting walks that take you past castles and fortifications, nature reserves and many places of interest in this beautiful county. London Beach Country hotel makes the perfect base for your excursions. A few of the walks near us are shown below. Click on the links to get the latest information from the AA site.
Appledore walk 5 miles
Follow the Royal Military Canal towards Appledore. This section of the canal flows from Rye towards Appledore. As seen from the towpath beside the canal.
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The Royal Military Canal stretches for 28 miles hugging the old cliff line that borders the Romney Marsh from Hythe in the north east to Cliff End in the south west. It was built as a third line of defence against Napoleon, after the British Royal Navy patrolling the English Channel and the line of 74 Martello Towers built along the south coast.
Great Dixter walk 3.5 miles
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Rare triple internal kilned oast house. One of only a few few Grade II listed Oasts.
Great Dixter house & gardens
Open to the public through the spring and summer, Great Dixter is a magnificent house, gardens and outbuildings situated off High Park in Northiam.
Romney Marsh walk 3 miles
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Footbridge near Willow Farm
This bridge is on a footpath from Pickney Bush Lane towards Norwood Lane.
Rye walk 4.5 miles
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Ternery Pool from the Parkes Hide
This is a good spot to watch birds at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
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The Saxon Shore Way heading to Camber Castle
Camber Castle is one of thirty Henrician Castles built by Henry VIII between 1539 and 1540 as an artillery fortress to counter the threat of invasion from Catholic France and Spain.
The castle lies between Rye and Winchelsea in East Sussex. Camber itself is actually 2.5 miles away, to the other side of Rye.
The castle was built around an earlier tower that had been built adjacent the sea to defend the harbour. The sea has since retreated by 1 mile.
Viewed from above the Castle has a tortoise like shape with four round towers at each corner and another entrance tower. Visitors have to walk for a mile or so see the castle.
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Saxon Shore Way
The Saxon Shore Way starts at Gravesend, Kent and traces the coast as it was in the Roman times as far as Hastings in East Sussex, 163 miles (262 km) in total. The Saxon Shore Way was originally opened in 1980, but has since been re-established, and in parts re-routed and extended. It follows the coastline of the South East as it was about 1500 years ago, long before the North Kent Marshes or the Romney Marsh came into existence. The Way takes its name, The Saxon Shore, from a line of fortifications built along the coastline as it was in the 3rd Century AD.
Small Hythe walk 3 miles
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Stile and footbridge on the High Weald Landscape Trail heading to Dumbourne Farm
Winchelsea walk 4.5 miles
Winchelsea gate