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Rochester Cathedral – Conyer Creek Marina loop from Kemsley

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Rochester Cathedral – Conyer Creek Marina loop from Kemsley

Hard

3.3

(9)

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Rochester Cathedral – Conyer Creek Marina loop from Kemsley

06:05

96.9km

530m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very 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

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 18.3 km for 71 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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9.06 km

Vineyard Trail

Highlight • Trail

Careful when wet, loose surface. fine if it's Nice and dry

Tip by

13.7 km

Horrid Hill

Highlight • Natural

Part of Riverside Country Park, Horrid Hill was originally an island. It is now joined to the mainland by a causeway.

Tip by

18.4 km

Ministry of Defence (MoD) Nuclear Waste Landfill

Forest

21.7 km

Cave Entrance

24.0 km

Rochester Cathedral was founded in 604 AD and is the second oldest cathedral in England, after Canterbury Cathedral. The building you see today broadly dates from the 11th century. Inside, you can see a fine collection of medieval wall paintings and the Textus Roffensis, the only existing written copy of the first code of English law and one of the most important books in England.

Tip by

33.9 km

Boat Wreck at Riverside Country Park

Highlight • Viewpoint

Covering over 247 acres (100 ha) along the Medway Estuary, the Riverside Country Park provides important habitats for wildlife. Mudflats, salt marshes, ponds, reed-beds, grassland and scrub attract thousands of species of birds and insects. You can learn more at the visitor centre in the park. There's also a cafe. The park opens at 8am and shuts at sunset.

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59.5 km

Conyer Creek Marina

Highlight • Viewpoint

This is an idyllic marina for yachts and boats on Conyer Creek on the River Swale. The marina sits on the North Kent coast marshes, a wonderful place to spot birdlife. You could stop at the Ship Inn for lunch, a drink or to charge your e-bike batteries (or legs).

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59.8 km

Sustrans National Cycle Route 1 Waymarker

Highlight • Cycleway

A bit past the Waymarker there are a couple of Railway sleepers you have to lift your bike over! Doable on a heavy E-bike, but gets old fast! Is one of the reasons I got the Gravel Bike!

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69.6 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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79.6 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.

Tip by

82.3 km

Bysing Wood

Forest

96.9 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

46.8 km

21.2 km

13.6 km

10.1 km

4.37 km

806 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

68.7 km

9.19 km

8.56 km

7.95 km

1.65 km

750 m

Elevation

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Friday 3 July

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Rochester Cathedral – Conyer Creek Marina loop from Kemsley

Vineyard Trail

Horrid Hill