Places to Visit
We are surrounded by historic buildings, beautiful gardens and other attractions. Here are some of them. Click on the names to visit their websites.
Batemans	Jacobean house, home of Rudyard Kipling	NT
Bodiam Castle	Perfect late medieval moated castle	NT
Chartwell	Winston Churchill’s home in the Kent downs	NT
Chatham Dockyard	Historic naval dockyard and naval vessels to explore
Emmetts Garden	Informal hillside garden in the Sevenoaks area	NT
Great Comp Gardens	Beautiful year round garden
Great Dixter Garden	Christopher Lloyd’s famous garden
Hever Castle	13th century castle, home of Anne Boleyn
Ightham Mote	Outstanding 14th century moated manor house	NT
Knowle Park	Show house and magnificent deer park	NT
Leeds Castle	Spectacular moated castle
Old Soar Manor	13th century knight’s dwelling	NT
Pashley Manor Gardens	A quintessential English garden
Penshurst Place	Medieval house, ancestral home of the Sidney family
Quebec House	Childhood home of General James Wolfe	NT
RHS Gardens Wisley	Spectacular Royal Horticultural Society garden
Scotney Castle	Victorian house and romantic garden	NT
Sheffield Park	Renowned landscape garden and parkland	NT
Sissinghurst Garden	One of the world’s most celebrated gardens	NT
Stoneacre	Half-timbered yeoman's house	NT
Wakehurst Place	Kew's 'country garden', with plants from across the world	NT
Tunbridge Wells itself is a town of considerable interest and has retained many of its pleasant open spaces close to the heart of the town while at the same time providing excellent shopping facilities, both in the older parts of the town, as well as the modern Royal Victoria Place shopping mall.