A mile further along the clifftop trail from the South Foreland Lighthouse, you will reach the delightful village of St Margaret’s Bay, a gap in the chalk with a sun-trapping shingle beach. This is the closest point to France and many a cross-Channel swimmer has stepped into the briny here.
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
Canterbury Cathedral
15.88 MILES
A rich repository of more than 1400 years of Christian history, Canterbury Cathedral is the Church of England’s mother ship, and a truly extraordinary…
Turner Contemporary
16.61 MILES
Turner Contemporary is a blockbuster art gallery, bolted together on the site of the seafront guesthouse where master painter JMW Turner used to stay…
Dover Castle
3.17 MILES
Occupying top spot, literally and figuratively, in Dover’s townscape, this most impressive of castles was built to bolster the country’s weakest point at…
Beaney House of Art & Knowledge
16.01 MILES
This mock-Tudor edifice is the grandest on the main shopping thoroughfare, if not the most authentic. Formerly called the Royal Museum & Art Gallery, it…
Nearby Kent attractions
1. South Foreland Lighthouse
0.69 MILES
From the Langdon Cliffs tourist office, follow the stony path east along the clifftops for a bracing 2-mile walk to the stout Victorian South Foreland…
2. Secret Wartime Tunnels
3.13 MILES
The biggest draw at Dover Castle is the secret wartime tunnels. The claustrophobic chalk-hewn passageways were excavated during the Napoleonic Wars and…
3. Saxon Church
3.13 MILES
The restored Saxon Church of St Mary in Castro can be found up in the castle.
4. Roman Lighthouse
3.16 MILES
This Roman-era lighthouse is Britain's oldest standing building and dates from around AD 50.
5. Dover Castle
3.17 MILES
Occupying top spot, literally and figuratively, in Dover’s townscape, this most impressive of castles was built to bolster the country’s weakest point at…
6. Dover Museum
3.65 MILES
By far the most enthralling exhibit in the town's three-storey museum is an astonishing 3600-year-old Bronze Age boat, discovered here in 1992. Vaunted as…
7. Banksy Brexit Mural
3.66 MILES
Despite voting leave, the poor port town of Dover is possibly the Southeast community set to suffer most post-Brexit. It was perhaps for that reason that…
8. Roman Painted House
3.68 MILES
A crumbling 1960s bunker is the unlikely setting for some of the most extensive, if stunted, Roman wall paintings north of the Alps. Several scenes depict…