Places of Interest

Many of these locations have summer event programmes, such as open air concerts at Leeds Castle and Bedgebury Pinetum, Shakespeare at Hever Castle, talks and workshops at Sissinghurst Castle Gardens and Great Dixter.

Hever Castle - Childhood home of Anne Boleyn

www.hevercastle.co.uk

Groombridge Place - Location for the filming of the Keira Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice.

www.groombridge.co.uk

Penshurst Place - Ancestral home of Sidney family - Viscount De L’Isle

www.penshurstplace.com

Leeds Castle - Home to Royalty, Lords and Ladies for over 1000 years.

www.leeds-castle.com

Great Dixter House and Gardens - Christopher Lloyd’s fabulous home

www.greatdixter.co.uk

Scotney Castle and Gardens

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-scotneycastlegarden/

Bedgebury Pinetum - Bedgebury National Pinetum and forest is the premier outdoor site in the Southeast of England.

www.bedgeburypinetum.org.uk/

Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - Vita Sackville-West’s magical rose gardens.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-sissinghurstcastlegarden.htm

Lullingstone Castle - Tom Hart Dyke and his World Garden.

www.lullingstonecastle.co.uk

Kent Tourist Information:

www.kentourism.co.uk

Golfing in Kent:

www.golfinginkent.co.uk

Bewl Water - The largest lake in south east England set in the Kent countryside

www.bewl.co.uk

Local Historic Towns

Royal Tunbridge Wells (20 mins)

Maidstone (25 mins)

Rye (50 mins)

Brighton (1 hour)

Chatham/Rochester (1 hour)