Folkestone

Folkestone Harbour

Waterfront · The inner harbour below the old town, where the fishing boats tie up beneath the old railway viaduct.

Battle of Britain Memorial

Landmark · A clifftop memorial to the airmen of 1940, where a carved pilot sits looking out over the Channel.

Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe

Church · Folkestone's parish church on the hill above the old town, keeper of the relics of its Anglo-Saxon patron saint.

East Cliff and Warren Country Park

Nature · A wild chalk clifftop and ancient landslip wilderness stretching above the English Channel, where geology and nature collide dramatically.

Lower Leas Coastal Park

Garden · A park on the slope beneath the Leas, with pine walks, gardens, a wild zone and an adventure playground.

Copt Point

Viewpoint · A low headland at the end of the East Cliff beaches, where the clay foreshore gives up fossils and the coast stretches away to the east.

Folkestone Harbour Arm

Waterfront · A converted Victorian railway pier stretching into the English Channel, lined with independent bars, artists, and sea air.

Steep Street Coffee House

Food & drink · A book-lined café halfway up the Old High Street, modelled on the book cafés of Paris.

Sunny Sands

Beach · A small sandy beach tucked between the harbour and the East Cliff, watched over by a bronze mermaid.

The Creative Quarter

Old streets · A maze of cobbled streets and converted railway arches where working artists have colonised a once-derelict Victorian harbour town.

The Leas

Viewpoint · A grand Victorian clifftop promenade of lawns, flower beds and seafront hotels, high above the Channel.