PubsRestaurants
The Six Bells
Family-friendly pub and restaurant in an 18th-century former coaching house on Old Perry Street, Northfleet, with a garden and function space.
45 acres of parkland in the Kent Downs at Meopham, with mature trees, woodland walks, a play area, cafe, toilets and parking.
Camer Park is 45 acres of parkland in the Kent Downs National Landscape at Meopham. It became a public park in 1971 and is now one of the parks on Gravesham Borough Council’s website. Visitors can roam the mature parkland or follow walks devised by the Meopham Footpaths Group through the adjoining woodland. There are picnic areas, a children’s play area, a cafe, toilets and a car park, and the council says the site is available for dog walking. Common lizards and slow worms live in the longer grass.
The main car park is locked half an hour before sunset each evening.
The council says the park has at least one accessible route but is otherwise less suitable for pushchairs and wheelchairs.
PubsRestaurants
Family-friendly pub and restaurant in an 18th-century former coaching house on Old Perry Street, Northfleet, with a garden and function space.
Pubs
Traditional Shepherd Neame pub on Vale Road, Northfleet, with a large garden, a petanque piste and live sport on TV.
Farm Shops & ProducersPubs
Independent Northfleet brewery with an on-site taproom serving its own cask and keg beers, with takeaway cans and growler fills.
GuideFamily Days Out, Parks & Walks
Northfleet Urban Country Park, plus Camer Park at Meopham and Trosley Country Park at Vigo on the Downs: what each has and what to check.
Parks & Walks
Informal grassland and woodland park in Northfleet, reached from Vale Road or Springhead Road.
Family Days Out, Parks & Walks
Kent County Council country park on the North Downs at Vigo, with chalk grassland, woodland trails, the Bluebell Cafe and wide views.
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