The places on this page have been chosen because they are genuinely worth your time. Most of them are in Kent, which is where this shelf begins — and as it turns out, Kent has rather a lot going on. Historic houses, walled gardens, medieval castles, coastal towns and the occasional hillside garden with a view that stops you. We are working outwards from here. Return often.
Places To Visit UK
Godinton House and Gardens, Kent
Godinton House and Gardens, Kent A Jacobean house in the Ashford countryside, built around [...]
Goodnestone Park Gardens
Goodnestone Park Gardens, Kent A privately owned garden in a quiet Kent village, seven [...]
Walmer Castle and Gardens, Kent
Walmer Castle and Gardens, Kent A Tudor artillery fort built to defend England from invasion by [...]
Emmetts Garden, Kent. Bluebells, Tulips and Autumn Colour
Emmetts Garden, Kent A plantsman's hillside garden near Sevenoaks, on one of the highest [...]
Penshurst Place and Gardens
Penshurst Place and Gardens, Kent A fortified medieval manor built by a Lord Mayor [...]
Ightham Mote, Kent
Ightham Mote, Kent A moated medieval manor in a hidden Kentish valley, pronounced "item," [...]
Knole, Kent
Knole, Kent One of the five largest houses in England, a thousand-acre medieval deer [...]
Chartwell, Kent
Chartwell House in Kent Winston Churchill bought a crumbling Victorian house in a Kentish [...]
Scotney Castle, Kent
Scotney Castle, Kent In the 1830s a man stood on a Kentish hillside, looked down at [...]
Leeds Castle, Kent
Leeds Castle, Kent It has been called the loveliest castle in the world so many times [...]
Hever Castle and Gardens
Hever Castle and Gardens, Kent A double-moated medieval castle in the Kentish Weald, childhood [...]
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent A Saxon pig farm became an Elizabethan mansion, then a [...]
Feature town – Folkestone, by the sea
Folkestone, With Its Edges Showing Folkestone is not the neatest of Kent’s coastal towns, [...]
City Feature – Canterbury, Kent
Canterbury, Beyond the Cathedral Canterbury does not need much help being noticed. Its cathedral [...]
Town feature – Ashford in Kent
Ashford, and Kent Beyond It It will never win a prettiest-town competition (Although it boasts [...]
