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 Bed and Breakfast Biddenden, Kent (near Tenterden) |
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Local
Attractions in Kent & East Sussex
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CASTLES: |
Bodiam Castle, standing in its own moat |
| Dover Castle | |
| Hever Castle with its moat, maze, gardens and lake, was Anne Boleyn's childhood home. | |
| Leeds Castle, described as the most beautiful castle in England. | |
| Scotney Castle Garden, Lamberhurst. One of England's most romantic gardens. |
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GARDENS: |
Emmetts Garden, "the garden on top of the Weald". |
| Great Dixter, Northiam, 15th century house and gardens. | |
| Pashley Manor Gardens. A fragrant garden created over the last two decades. | |
| Sissinghurst Castle Gardens, one of the country's most famous. |
 Batemans  Knole House |
Batemans, the family home of the writer Rudyard Kipling. |
| Chartwell, Winston Churchill's home. | |
| Ightham Mote, a manor house dating back to 1340. | |
| Knole, Sevenoaks, one of England's largest private houses, with 365 rooms. | |
| Lamb House, Rye, home of the writer Henry James. | |
| Penshurst Place, a medieval manor house. |
 Smallhythe Place |
Finchcocks, Goudhurst, living museum of music, housing a collection of keyboard instruments. |
| Smallhythe Place, home of actress Ellen Terry. | |
| Whitbread Hop Farm, Beltring, a leisure centre and museum of hop-farming and rural crafts, housed in the largest group of oast houses in the world. |
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Kent and East Sussex Railway, Tenterden (full size) |
| Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway (miniature steam trains, but take passengers) |
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VILLAGES:  Battle  Tenterden |
Battle (1066), Town and Abbey. |
| Canterbury and its magnificent cathedral. | |
| Goudhurst | |
| Rye, the picturesque Cinque Port. | |
| Smarden | |
| Tenterden | |
| Tunbridge Wells | |
| Winchelsea, an ancient town founded in 1288, with mediaeval gateways. One of the Cinque Ports. |