This Family run site is ideal for people travelling abroad with the Eurotunnel's Channel Tunnel less than 4 miles away and Dover just 15 minutes with a caravan. It's also a brilliant position for people touring Kent with Ashford, Canterbury and the coast only 15 minutes away.

The Camp site was introduced in 2010 and has been received very well by campers and tourers alike. A unisex shower and toilet room seperate from the pub are available 24/7.

We offer 10 electric hook-ups, 14 touring pitches plus tents pitches.


The Drum Inn offers a good range of home cooked pub food and our ever-changing range of real ales has been recognised by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale. We try to ensure that we have four ales on at any one time.

‘The Drum Inn was built during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) in the year 1708 and was originally called ‘Ye Olde Drum.

It was built at a time when this part of Kent maintained a high level of military activity and was frequented regularly by the Duke of Marlboroughs regiment, whose uniform colours are depicted in the sign outside.

In 1760, a fierce battle took place at the foot of Stone Street between a gang of smugglers and revenue men. The leader of the smugglers, one Samuel Jackson, shot and killed a revenue officer and wounded another before being captured and subsequently hanged. Two members of his gang escaped and took refuge in an old stone barn that stood where the car park is today.

They were found and flogged in the courtyard to the obvious delight of the soldiers at the Inn. They were sent to Maidstone to await trial and eventually they too were hanged.

When the stone barn was pulled down to make way for the car park, a hoard of treasures were found, including two tubs of contraband gin, a smugglers flash, a blunderbuss pistol and the original Inn Sign.

NEARBY ATTRACTIONS
• Port Lympne Wild Animal Park
• Romney Hythe & Dymchurh Light Railway
• Dover Castle
• Canterbury Cathedral
• Designer outlet (Ashford)

DIRECTIONS
On the M20 take the jnt11 slip road and head towards Canterbuy on the B2068, aprox 1/2 mile along take the 1st left into Stanford and The Drum is on the righthand side. Proceed through the carpark and book in at the Pub.

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