• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Big Days Out

great free and pay for places to visit in the British Isles

  • England
    • Avon
    • Bedfordshire
    • Berkshire
    • Buckinghamshire
    • Cambridgeshire
    • Cheshire
    • Cornwall
    • County Durham
    • Cumbria
    • Derbyshire
    • Devon
    • Dorset
    • Essex
    • Gloucestershire
    • Hampshire
    • Herefordshire
    • Hertfordshire
    • Huntingdonshire
    • Isle Of Wight
    • Kent
    • Lancashire
    • Leicestershire
    • Lincolnshire
    • London
    • Merseyside
    • Middlesex
    • Norfolk
    • Northamptonshire
    • Northumberland
    • Nottinghamshire
    • Oxfordshire
    • Shropshire
    • Somerset
    • Staffordshire
    • Suffolk
    • Surrey
    • Sussex
    • Tyne & Wear
    • Warwickshire
    • West Midlands
    • Wiltshire
    • Worcestershire
    • Yorkshire
  • Ireland
    • Co. Londonderry
    • County Antrim
    • County Armagh
    • County Cork
    • County Down
    • County Fermanagh
    • County Kerry
    • County Mayo
    • County Tyrone
  • Scotland
    • Angus
    • Ayrshire
    • Borders
    • Dundee
    • Edinburgh
    • Glasgow
    • Invernessshire
    • Kincardineshire
    • Perthshire
    • South Lanarkshire
    • Stirling
  • Wales
    • Cardiff
    • Clwydd
    • Dyfed
    • Gwent
    • Gwynedd
    • Mid Glamorgan
    • Powys
    • South Glamorgan
    • West Glamorgan
You are here: Home / Archives for England / Kent

Kent

Westenhanger Castle

The partly ruined Westenhanger Castle is located on what was the site of two medieval manor houses, Westenhanger and Ostenhanger. The site as it ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles

Walmer Castle

Originally built during the reign of Henry VIII as part of a chain of coastal artillery defences against Catholic attack from Europe,Walmer Castle has ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage, Gardens

Upnor Castle

Set in tranquil grounds adjoining a riverside village, this rare example of an Elizabethan artillery fort was begun in 1559 and redeveloped in ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Tonge Castle

Excavations of the moated habitation known as "Tonge Castle" were carried out in 1963-4 by the Sittingbourne and Swale Archaeological Group. The ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Anglo-Saxon, Castles, Medieval

Tonbridge Castle

Tonbridge Castle

Motte and bailey castle, first mentioned in 1080. Motte surmounted by the remains of a shell keep probably of 11th century date. Gatehouse of circa ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles

Thurnham Castle

Thurnham Castle crowns the point of a steep spur of the North Downs, which commands the Maidstone-Sittingbourne road and the Pilgrim's Way to ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles

Sutton Valence Castle

The ruins of a small 12th-century Norman keep, with panoramic views over the Weald. Sutton Valence was another of the fortresses placed near the ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

St Leonard's Tower

An early and well-preserved example of a small free-standing Norman tower keep, surviving almost to its original height. It was probably built c. 1080 ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Sissinghurst Castle

The National Trust took over the whole of Sissinghurst, its garden, farm and buildings, in 1967. The garden epitomises the English garden of the ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles, Gardens, National Trust

Shurland Castle

Remains at Shurland House. Not open to the public. In the parish of Eastchurch, in the Isle of Sheppey, lying E. of Minster on high ground, is the ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles

Sandwich Castle

The earliest reference to a castle at Sandwich, the premier port of England at one time, was in the reign of Edward I (1272‚1307 ) when a bailiff or ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles, Medieval

Sandown Castle

Today all that remains of Sandown Castle is part of the west side of the castle including bastions and a section of the central tower. Remains of the ...

Read More »

Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Castles

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Location Search

Popular

  1. Sandown Castle
  2. Hanwell Castle
  3. Shirburn Castle
  4. About Big Days Out
  5. Contact Big Days Out

Locations

Tags

Anglo-Saxon Art Galleries Attraction Battlefield Castles Cathedrals - Ecclesiastical Country Park Documents And Archives English Heritage Free Gardens Green Flag Award Winners hotel Houses Industrial History Iron Age Medieval Military Museums National Trust Roman Sandford Award Winners Sports And Leisure Steam Railway Theme Park Tudor World Heritage Sites Zoos And Wildlife Parks

Footer

 

 

 

 

 

  • About Big Days Out
  • Contact Big Days Out
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie policy (UK)

Copyright © 2025 · Log in

Manage Cookie Consent
We use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. We do this to improve browsing experience and to show (non-) personalised ads. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional cookies Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}