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Whitstable Seafront Promenade – Coastal Cycle Path loop from St Nicholas-at-Wade

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Whitstable Seafront Promenade – Coastal Cycle Path loop from St Nicholas-at-Wade

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Whitstable Seafront Promenade – Coastal Cycle Path loop from St Nicholas-at-Wade

03:57

65.4km

270m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 28, 2026

Tips

Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

After 31.4 km for 201 m

After 33.1 km for 201 m

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Start point

Bus stop

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6.47 km

Hillborough Church and Cemetery

Highlight • Religious Site

Quiet windswept Graveyard surrounds the Church. Built between 1876 and 1878, it is the second such church on its site. The first, consecrated in 1813, was a replacement for a church of St Mary that was founded in 669 .

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11.7 km

Herne Bay Beach Huts

Highlight • Structure

The brightly coloured beach huts of Herne Bay are a delightful sight, as is the blue sea and the pebbled beach between them.

The town of Herne Bay is also home to the world's first purpose-built freestanding clock tower, which dates back to 1837.

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13.1 km

Whitstable Seafront Promenade

Highlight • Beach

There's a good cycle route right on the seafront at Whitstable that leads all the way to the edge of Herne Bay. Gorgeous sea views all the way!

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14.4 km

Coastal Cycle Path

Highlight • Trail

Avoid on the weekend as this becomes a very popular walk.

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16.8 km

View of the North Sea

Highlight • Viewpoint

Often windswept, Rugged unchanging landscape fringed by beaches

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32.1 km

Abbey Street, Faversham

Highlight • Historical Site

In the 12th century a highway was laid out as a grand approach to the Abbey which had survived Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries to become a residential area popular with anyone who owed their livelihood to the Creek, whether as merchant, craftsman or seaman.

Toward the end of the 19th century its middle-class residents started moving to new houses elsewhere in the town, and many of its properties became tenanted. The new occupiers were often much poorer than their predecessors. Landlords neglected the properties and so the street came to look 'down-at-heel'. Determination to build a 'brave new world' after the end of the Second World War encouraged local councils to sweep away houses that lacked modern amenities. Most of those in Abbey Street qualified, but they were also historic buildings of importance.

After intervention by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, an ingenious pioneering scheme launched by Faversham Borough Council in the late 1950s saved them from the fate that overtook many of their counterparts elsewhere. Apart from Arden's House (No 80), none of the properties is of outstanding national importance, and so they were not eligible for historic building repair grants. However, collectively they are of national importance, and so the first 'town scheme' was introduced to make them eligible. Most of them were bought by the council under slum-clearance powers, and their occupants re-housed elsewhere.

However, instead of being demolished the properties in Abbey Street were sold to sympathetic owners who covenanted with the council to restore them under the supervision of an architect with experience of historic building care. To cover its costs, the council made a slight profit on each - buying the smaller houses for about £250 each and then selling them for about £300.

In other historic towns, streets were being brutally widened, but in Abbey Street the carriageway was actually narrowed - the first in the UK - to reduce traffic nuisance. At the same time, the street was planted with trees.

Abbey Street is sometimes said to be the finest medieval street in southeast England. It is certainly a wonderful "gallery" of old buildings, mainly timber-framed. As already noted, the ace in the pack is Arden's House, one of the few surviving buildings of Faversham Abbey, and possibly its guesthouse. With 81 (Arden's Cottage), it originally formed a big "open courtyard" house. It dates from around 1450-1500, with remains of the Abbey outer gatehouse of c 1200, which spanned the street here.

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32.3 km

Market Place, Faversham

Highlight • Monument

Faversham Antiques Market is held in Market Place and Court Street. It is held on the first Sunday of every month

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46.2 km

Whitstable Harbour

Highlight • Structure

There is a lovely little market at Whitstable Harbour. It has expanded enormously over the years and now has some really excellent, trendy restaurants as well as arts and crafts stalls where you can find some gems. There are also a number of very cheap stalls selling fresh fish and takeaway food just outside the market itself.

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65.4 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

40.6 km

12.0 km

5.65 km

4.84 km

1.47 km

913 m

Surfaces

44.8 km

13.6 km

4.90 km

2.06 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Saturday 11 July

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Whitstable Seafront Promenade – Coastal Cycle Path loop from St Nicholas-at-Wade

Hillborough Church and Cemetery

Herne Bay Beach Huts

Whitstable Seafront Promenade

Coastal Cycle Path

View of the North Sea

Abbey Street, Faversham

Market Place, Faversham

Whitstable Harbour

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