Browsing local attractions within 5 miles of University College for the Creative Arts

Christ Church Gate, The Precincts, Canterbury, CT1 2EE, Tel: 01227 459779, Email, www.canterburyguidedtours.com, (0.5 miles, 0.8kms)

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.

Off Whitehall Road, Canterbury, CT2 8NL, Tel: 01227 862190, Email, (1 miles, 2kms)

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.

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

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

Whitehall Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8BQ, Tel: 01227 844479, www.sekgroup.org.uk/ket, (0.8 miles, 1kms)

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.

King Street, Fordwich, Canterbury, CT2 0DA, Tel: 01227 710326, www.fordwichtown.org, (2 miles, 3kms)

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.

22 St Peter's Street, Canterbury, CT1 2BQ, Tel: 01227 453267, Email, www.canterbury.ac.uk/sidney-cooper, (0.7 miles, 1kms)

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.

Adjacent to 6 Stour Street, Canterbury, CT1 2NR, Tel: 01227 471688, Email, www.eastbridgehospital.org.uk, (0.6 miles, 0.9kms)

The only remaining building of the first English Franciscan Friary.

North Holmes Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1QJ, Tel: 01227 768072, www.martinpaul.org, (0.3 miles, 0.5kms)

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.

Chalkpit Farm, School Lane, Bekesbourne, CT4 5EU, Tel: 01227 830 666, (3 miles, 5kms)

29-30 Palace Street, Canterbury, CT1 2DZ, Tel: 01227 765 665, (0.6 miles, 0.9kms)

Kingsmead Road, Canterbury, CT2 7PH, Tel: 01227 769818, (0.8 miles, 1kms)

The Green, Wickhambreaux, Canterbury, CT3 1RQ, (4 miles, 7kms)