Paddleboarding spots in Kent
79 launch spots across Kent
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RiverDartford Slipway
Kent, EnglandDartford Slipway launches onto Dartford Creek, the tidal lower reach of the River Darent near Temple Hill, Dartford, which runs on for about two miles as a tidal estuary before joining the Thames east of Crayford Ness. Some sources call it Nelson's Row slipway, after the footpath and river crossing it sits beside.
SeaDan's Dock
Kent, EnglandDan's Dock is a disused jetty on Uplees Marshes where the land meets the Swale, the tidal channel separating the Isle of Sheppey from mainland Kent. It served an explosives works on the marshes, a gun cotton factory opened in 1873 and later a munitions factory, the site of a 1916 explosion that killed over 100 workers. The jetty is now abandoned, and the marshes lie within the Swale Site of Special Scientific Interest.
SeaNewgate Gap slipway (Cliftonville West)
Kent, EnglandThis slipway sits at Newgate Gap, a historic cliff-top access point onto an open stretch of Cliftonville beach in Margate. The gap has given pedestrian access to the shore since Victorian times, though this stretch of coast has no distinct bay name of its own.
RiverGrove Ferry slipway
Kent, EnglandThis slipway sits at Grove Ferry, on the tidal Great Stour downstream of Fordwich, where a road bridge replaced a historic hand ferry crossing in 1966. The site borders Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve, a wetland SSSI and Ramsar site, and Grove Ferry Boat Club has run a clubhouse on the south bank since 1964.
RiverChiddingstone put-in (Sevenoaks)
Kent, EnglandThis slipway is on the River Eden at Chiddingstone Causeway, a hamlet in Chiddingstone parish between Edenbridge and Penshurst. The Eden is a minor Wealden tributary that joins the River Medway a short distance downstream at Penshurst.
RiverBrook Street put-in (Tonbridge and Malling)
Kent, EnglandThis slipway is on the River Medway at Tonbridge, on New Wharf Road near the Brook Street area and the town's water treatment works, downstream of Tonbridge's main bridge and Town Lock. Tonbridge is the head of the Medway Navigation, historically a working wharf on the river.
SeaEpple Bay slipway
Kent, EnglandEpple Bay is a small chalk-cliff bay on the Birchington-on-Sea seafront in Thanet, with a mix of shingle and sand exposed at low tide. This OSM-mapped slipway sits at the western edge of the bay. Thanet council designates Epple Bay's neighbouring slipways for fishing boats and sail craft rather than powered leisure craft.
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