Browsing local places within 5 miles of Howletts Wild Animal Park

Cockering Road, Canterbury, CT1 3UP, Tel: 01227 862190, Email, (4 miles, 6kms)

This beautiful ancient 45-hectare woodland has spectacular displays of wildflower including many species of orchid.

Riverscroft, Grove Ferry, Upstreet, Canterbury, CT3 4BP, Tel: 08458 247 600, Email, www.kent.gov.uk, (5 miles, 8kms)

Grove Ferry is an ideal spot for picnics or fishing in the River Stour.

Off Whitehall Road, Canterbury, CT2 8NL, Tel: 01227 862190, Email, (4 miles, 6kms)

This area dates back to the Doomsday period. Today it is one of a few areas of riverside grassland that has not been treated with weedkillers or fertilisers, which means that a wide variety of species can thrive.

Whitehall Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8BQ, Tel: 01227 844479, www.sekgroup.org.uk/ket, (3 miles, 5kms)

Set in the floodplan of the Great Stour just outside Canterbury, Hambrook Marshes is in an area of natural marshland located adjacent to the Riverside Retail Park in Wincheap.

Stodmarsh, Canterbury, CT3 4BP, Tel: 0300 0600 4763, www.naturalengland.org.uk, (5 miles, 8kms)

Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve is a unique and beautiful area of wetland, internationally recognised as an important home to a rich variety of wildlife, especially birds. Image Stodmarsh Reserve © Emma Griffiths, Natural England