Medway & the Kent Downs
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Sun Pier House
Sun Pier House occupies a former office building on Medway Street in Chatham,…
CounterBaggins Book Bazaar
Baggins Book Bazaar fills a run of interconnected rooms at 19 High Street,…
SnugThe Coopers Arms
The Coopers Arms occupies a building on St Margarets Street in Rochester that…
CellarDouble Vision Cider
Double Vision Cider presses apples grown at Marlpit Farm in Boughton…
LarderBlomst Bakery
Blomst Bakery opened in February 2024 on Hartnup Street in Maidstone, run by…
TableRochester Coffee Co.
Rochester Coffee Co. occupies a shopfront on the High Street opposite Rochester…
Grounds
Aero Coffee
Gravesend, ENG
Aero Bike + Bean occupies the Cycle Hub at Gravesend train station on Rathmore Road, pouring coffee…
Cosgroves
Faversham, ENG
Breakfast and lunch cafe on Preston Street in Faversham, serving cooked breakfasts, sandwiches,…
Herbert & Ward
Rochester, ENG
Herbert & Ward has roasted coffee and blended tea from Rochester since 1929, when Herbert and Ward…
The Bow Window
Lenham, ENG
Overlooking Lenham's market square, this tea room and café has changed hands twice since opening in…
Table
Chequers Fish and Chips
Lenham, ENG
A fish bar in Lenham, open Monday to Saturday for dining in or taking away, with 25 years of…
Medway Cafe (Gillingham)
Gillingham, ENG
Medway Cafe is a straightforward, independently run cafe on Gillingham High Street, close to the…
Oad Street Food and Crafts
Borden, ENG
Oad Street Food and Crafts occupies a former farm building on Oad Street, outside Borden near…
Rochester Coffee Co.
Rochester, ENG
Rochester Coffee Co. occupies a shopfront on the High Street opposite Rochester Cathedral, fitted…
Ruby's at The Medway Inn
Wouldham, ENG
Ruby's at the Medway Inn occupies a family-run pub on Wouldham's high street, serving breakfast and…
The George Vaults
Rochester, ENG
The George Vaults sits on Rochester High Street above an early-14th-century vaulted undercroft, one…
The Taste of Bengal
Harrietsham, ENG
A Bangladeshi restaurant on the A20 at Harrietsham, Kent, open seven days a week, noon to 2pm and…
Tiny Tim's Tearooms
Rochester, ENG
Tiny Tim's occupies a corner of The Precinct just off Rochester High Street, a short walk from…
Larder
Applegate Farm Butchers
Borden, ENG
Patrick Cole runs Applegate Farm Butchers from a shop on Oad Street in Borden, outside…
Blomst Bakery
Maidstone, ENG
Blomst Bakery opened in February 2024 on Hartnup Street in Maidstone, run by Mia Dahl, who grew up…
Court Farm Butchery & Country Larder
Upper Halling, ENG
Court Farm Butchery and Country Larder trades from the working farm at Upper Halling that the…
Just Cutts Butchers
Rainham, ENG
Teresa Cutts opened Just Cutts in Rainham Shopping Centre in 1992, building on an earlier shop…
The Tartan Butchers
Faversham, ENG
The Tartan Butchers is a single-shop artisan butcher on East Street in Faversham, run by William…
Culture
Creek Creative
Faversham, ENG
Creek Creative occupies a former warehouse on Abbey Street near Faversham Creek, run as a community…
Doddington Place Gardens
Doddington, ENG
Doddington Place Gardens occupies the grounds of a red-brick Victorian house built around 1870 for…
Eastchurch Aviation Museum
Eastchurch, ENG
A volunteer-run museum on the Isle of Sheppey covering the island's part in the pioneering days of…
Intra Arts
Rochester, ENG
Intra Arts occupies the former Spemco building on Rochester High Street, a Victorian structure with…
Museum of Carriages
Maidstone, unparished area, ENG
Maidstone Carriage Museum stands on Mill Street, in the 14th-century stables of the medieval…
Oasthouse Theatre
Rainham, ENG
On Stratford Lane in Rainham, Kent, this venue bills itself as the world's first oasthouse theatre.…
Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum
Maidstone, unparished area, ENG
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regimental Museum has been housed within Maidstone Museum on St…
Sun Pier House
Chatham, ENG
Sun Pier House occupies a former office building on Medway Street in Chatham, overlooking Sun Pier…
The Criterion Blue Town
Sheerness, ENG
The Criterion Blue Town is run entirely by volunteers, combining a heritage centre, music hall and…
The Woodville
Gravesend, ENG
Gravesend's local theatre and cinema complex, on Woodville Place in Kent. The programme covers…
Workshop
Aylesford School of Ceramics
Aylesford, ENG
Alan Parris and Mark 'Billy' Byles, longtime collaborators in studio pottery, own and run the…
Conscious Studio Pottery
Bobbing, near Sittingbourne, ENG
Conscious Studio Pottery is a working ceramics studio at Pheasant Enterprises on Sheppey Way in…
The Jewellery Workshop Maidstone
Maidstone, ENG
The Jewellery Workshop has traded from Gabriel's Hill in Maidstone since 1974, a bench-based…
This Art of Mine
Thurnham, ENG
This Art of Mine occupies a converted barn at Little Budds Farm in Thurnham, on the peony farm run…
Counter
Baggins Book Bazaar
Rochester, ENG
Baggins Book Bazaar fills a run of interconnected rooms at 19 High Street, Rochester, and is…
Creekside Vinyl
Faversham, ENG
Simon Tyler runs Creekside Vinyl from a small shopfront just off Faversham's Market Place, stocking…
Decktronix
Chatham Intra, Rochester, ENG
Decktronix is an independent record shop at the rear of Featherstone House on the Chatham Intra…
Maytree Nursery
Dunkirk, Faversham, ENG
Maytree Nursery is a plant nursery and garden centre at Dunkirk, on the edge of Faversham, run as a…
Mossys Garden Centre
Sittingbourne, ENG
Mossys is a family-run garden centre tucked behind West Street in the middle of Sittingbourne,…
Pleasant View Garden Centre
Chart Sutton, ENG
Pleasant View Garden Centre sits on Plough Wents Road in Chart Sutton, a village in the Maidstone…
Store 104
Rochester, ENG
Store 104 occupies a shopfront on Rochester High Street, combining a bookshop and yarn shop under…
Top Hat & Tales
Faversham, ENG
Top Hat & Tales on West Street in Faversham is, as the name suggests, two shops in one: an…
Cellar
Copper Rivet Distillery
Chatham, ENG
Copper Rivet Distillery occupies Pump House No. 5 inside Chatham's historic naval dockyard, a Grade…
Double Vision Cider
Boughton Monchelsea, ENG
Double Vision Cider presses apples grown at Marlpit Farm in Boughton Monchelsea, a few miles south…
Goachers Brewery
Tovil, Maidstone, ENG
Goachers Brewery was founded in 1983 by Phil and Debbie Goacher, initially working from premises…
Mereworth Wines
Mereworth, ENG
Mereworth Wines makes English sparkling wine from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grown on…
Moot Brew Co
Upper Halling, ENG
Moot Brew Co brews at Court Farm in Upper Halling, in a former grain store converted into a taproom…
Vino Faversham
Faversham, ENG
Vino is a small independent wine shop and bar on Court Street, in the run of specialist shops…
Snug
10:50 From Victoria
Strood, ENG
The 10:50 From Victoria is a micropub reached through a wooden gate off North Street in Strood, up…
12 Degrees
Rochester, ENG
12 Degrees occupies a former shop on Rochester High Street, converted in 2018 into a micropub built…
Past & Present Ale House
Gillingham, ENG
This micropub on Canterbury Street opened in 2018 as One for the Road, was renamed the Gin & Tap…
Pilots' Rest
Sheerness, ENG
Pilots' Rest occupies a former shop on Sheerness High Street previously home to a micropub called…
Sun Inn
Faversham, ENG
A town-centre pub on West Street in Faversham's conservation area, dating back to the 14th century…
The Black Horse Inn
Thurnham, ENG
The Black Horse Inn sits on the Pilgrims Way in the hamlet of Thurnham, five minutes from Maidstone…
The Coopers Arms
Rochester, ENG
The Coopers Arms occupies a building on St Margarets Street in Rochester that dates from the…
Wolfe & Castle
Rochester, ENG
Wolfe & Castle occupies a Grade II listed building on Rochester High Street known locally as the…
Rest
Banks Rooms
Minster-on-Sea, ENG
Banks Rooms occupies the upper floor of a building said to date from the early 1600s, once an…
Dunmow House
Eastchurch, ENG
Dunmow House sits on Church Road in the centre of Eastchurch, with off-road parking and a garden.…
Judd's Folly Hotel
Faversham, ENG
Judd's Folly sits on London Road at Ospringe, outside Faversham, and is part of the Best Western…
Orchard Cottage Guest House
Cliffe Woods, ENG
Orchard Cottage is a bed and breakfast run by Kevin and Sue from a self-contained annexe attached…
St. George Hotel
Medway, unparished area, ENG
A large hotel run with the feel of a small family establishment, on New Road Avenue in Chatham,…
The Lower Bell
Aylesford, ENG
The Lower Bell has taken in travellers on Bluebell Hill since 1865, a coaching-era inn now run as a…
The Shurland Hotel
Eastchurch, ENG
A hotel at 79-81 High Street in Eastchurch, near Sheerness in Kent. Rooms have en-suite bath or…
The Sovereign
Borstal, Rochester, ENG
The Sovereign is a bed and breakfast run aboard a permanently moored 1930s Rhine cruiser at Medway…
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