Fowlmead Country Park - Deal
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Fowlmead Country Park is a 200-acre (80 hectare) park regenerated from the shale spoil tip of the former Betteshanger Colliery. The colliery was the last of the four Kent coal mines to close in 1989 and the land languished unused until 2000 when the regional development agency, SEEDA (South East England Development Agency), acquired the freehold and set to redeveloping the brownfield site into a country park. FOWLMEAD IS OPEN FROM 8AM TO 8PM EVERY DAY CAFE OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 9.30AM TO 16.00PM BIKE HIRE OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 9.30AM TO 17:30PM PAY & DISPLAY CAR PARKING operates at Fowlmead – the cost is £1.50 for all day parking Monday to Friday and £2.00 for weekends and Bank Holidays. | |||||||||||||||||||||||