PLACES TO VISIT
Interactive map of some Kent attractions
Interactive map of some East Sussex Attractions
ENGLISH HERITAGE PROPERTIES
- Dover Castle - Pivotal to the defence of our shores for centuries
- Battle Abbey - Abbey and 1066 Battle of Hastings Battlefield
- Bayham Abbey - Ruined abbey
VINEYARDS
- Chapple Down - Tenterden
- Biddenden
- Hush Heath - staplehurst
GARDENS
- Sissinghurst- one of the world's most celebrated gardens
- Great Dixter -Family home of Christopher Lloyd. Colourful, experimental garden. Hall House
- Merriments - contemporary garden set in wealden farmland. Garden centre
- Pashley Manor - one of the very best - a quintessential English garden. Tulip, rose and dahlia festivals. Garden with sculptures
- Hole park - A garden for all seasons
CASTLES
- Leeds Castle - A castle for all seasons - moated. Extensive grounds
- Hever - moated C13th castle - home of Anne Bolyn
- Dover - Pivotal to the defense of our shores. Wartime tunnels
- Bodiam - one of the most famous and evocative castles.
HISTORIC HOUSES
- Penshurst Place - mediaeval baron's house - Tudor garden
- Bateman's - Home and Garden of Rudyard Kipling
- Chartwell - home of Winston Churchill
- Ightham Mote - Magnificent moated house
- Knole - Deer park and stately home
- Scotney - Victorian stately home and grounds
MUSEUMS AND CHURCHES
- Cranbrook Museum - country town rural museum
- Smallhythe - Home of Actress Ellen Terry
- Chatham Dockyards - maritime heritage location, dating back over 400 yrs
- St Dunstan's church, Cranbrook - cathedral of the weald
- Romney Marsh Churches - 14 medieval churches which still stand on Romney Marsh
- Cranbrook Windmill
HERITAGE RAILWAYS
- Kent & East Sussex - 7 mile steam trip to Northiam and Bodiam
- Spa Valley
- Romney Hythe and Dymchurch - Kent's famous mainline in miniature
CINEMA
Kino Cinemas... digital, civilised and comfortable, with a good selection of current films - Hawkhurst or Rye
THE GREAT OUTDOORS - COUNTRY AND COAST
- Bedgebury Forest & Pinetum
- Bewl Water reservoir
- Ashdown Forest - home of Winnie the Pooh
- National Trust Walks in Kent
- Rye Harbour - nature reserve/walk
- Hastings country Park
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