Welcome to Milton Creek

Milton Creek is a shallow tidal inlet which runs north-east from Sittingbourne to join the Swale at Elmley Reach. The The area has a rich heritage dating from the Roman period and was vital industrial artery from the Middle Ages to the middle of the last century.

The Country Park encompasses an area of former brickfields situated between the Creek and Holy Trinity Church which dates from the 7th Century. Over the last five years the Park has been been turned from a brown field site into Kent's newest Country Park and is now in the final stages of development.

Both the Park and the adjacent Creek provide a haven wildlife including two endangered species, the Great Crested Newt and Shrill Carder Bee as well as more common species such as foxes and herons. If you are really lucky you may be fortunate enough to catch the blue streak of one of the resident kingfishers or spot the bobbing head of a seal in the Creek.

Visitors who wish to go further can walk the Saxon Shore Way, a footpath which follows the original Roman coastline 163 miles from Gravesend to Hastings.

In the summer steam trains are a regular sight as the Kemsley Light Railway, part of the former Bowater narrow gauge railway winds it's way through the Park, taking visitors along the route once used to take workers to Sittingbourne's busy paper mills.