Browsing local attractions within 5 miles of Canterbury Ghost Tour

Canterbury Guided Tours

Christ Church Gate, The Precincts, Canterbury, CT1 2EE, (0.1 miles, 0.2kms), Tel: 01227 459779, Email, www.canterburyguidedtours.com

Enjoy a fascinating 90 minute tour of historic streets AND Cathedral Precincts with knowledgeable, entertaining guides to address your questions and special interests. All for £6.50 or less! Tours daily from the Buttermarket.

Whitehall Meadows and Bingley Island

Off Whitehall Road, Canterbury, CT2 8NL, (0.6 miles, 1kms), Tel: 01227 862190, Email

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.

Nature Reserve

Larkey Valley Wood

Cockering Road, Canterbury, CT1 3UP, (1 miles, 2kms), Tel: 01227 862190, Email

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

Nature Reserve

Hambrook Marshes

Whitehall Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8BQ, (0.3 miles, 0.5kms), Tel: 01227 844479, www.sekgroup.org.uk/ket

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.

Nature Reserve
Workshop/Course

Fordwich Town Hall

King Street, Fordwich, Canterbury, CT2 0DA, (2 miles, 4kms), Tel: 01227 710326, www.fordwichtown.org

Although it is believed that there was an earlier building on the site, the present Guildhall, or Town Hall as it is known today, was built in 1544 during the reign of King Henry VIII.

Historic Site

Sidney Cooper Gallery

22 St Peter's Street, Canterbury, CT1 2BQ, (0.2 miles, 0.4kms), Tel: 01227 453267, Email, www.canterbury.ac.uk/sidney-cooper

The Sidney Cooper Gallery is a contemporary art gallery that puts on around ten exhibitions per year. It is part of Canterbury Christ Church University. It's programme includes artists of repute - locally, nationally and internationally.

Greyfriars Chapel

Adjacent to 6 Stour Street, Canterbury, CT1 2NR, (0.1 miles, 0.1kms), Tel: 01227 471688, Email, www.eastbridgehospital.org.uk

The only remaining building of the first English Franciscan Friary.

Chapel

St Martin's Church

North Holmes Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1QJ, (0.6 miles, 1kms), Tel: 01227 768072, www.martinpaul.org

St Martin's Church is the oldest in England still in use as a parish church and is part of the Canterbury World Heritage Site. This church was the first base of St Augustine when he came to Canterbury in 597.