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Known as ‘The key to England’, the great fortress of Dover Castle has played a crucial role in the defence of the island for over nine centuries. Commanding the shortest sea crossing between England and the continent. Venture below ground with a tour of the eerie medieval underground works and see how the tunnels were adapted by engineers during the Read more…
Old Soar Manor is a stone house dating from 1290 with a solor chamber, chapel, barrel vaulted undercroft and an interesting exhibiltion. Read more…
Squerryes Court is a late 17th century manor house that stands just outside the town of Westerham in Kent, is surrounded by 10 acres (around 4 hectares) of gardens and parkland. The building, which is in early Georgian style, houses a fine collection of Old Master paintings from the Italian, 17th Century Dutch and 18th Century English schools, together with Read more…
The Rochester Guildhall Museum has a wide selection of exhibits from prehistoric times to the 19th Century. Read more…
Smallhythe Place was Ellen Terry’s early 16th-century house, thatched barn theatre and cottage gardens. Collection of theatrical costumes and personal mementoes. Read more…
Kit’s Coty House and its neighbour, Little Kit’s Coty House, are the remains of two megalithic ‘dolmen’ burial chambers. Kit’s Coty is the larger of the two monuments, with three uprights and a massive capstone, while the smaller, Little Kit’s Coty (also known as the Countless Stones), is now a jumble of sarsens. Read more…
The Pantiles is a Georgian colonnade in the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Formerly known as The Walks and the (Royal) Parade, it leads from the well that gave the town its name. The area was created following the discovery of a chalybeate spring in the early 17th century. The Pantiles today includes a variety of specialist shops, cafes, restaurants Read more…
The Norman Rochester Castle is strategically placed by the River Medway. Building started in 1087 and now you only have the remains of the 113ft (34m) keep and curtain walls. The castle has gardens and moat which host a range of events. Read more…
The Drop Redoubt is one of the two linked forts on Dovers Western Heights. Linked to Citadel, by a series of dry moats. The artillery at the Redoubt faced mostly inland as it was constructed to defend against an invading force attempting to capture Dover from the rear. The construction of the Redoubt was in two periods: the first being Read more…
Richborough Fort was founded in AD 43 soon after the Romans landed in England to protect a major port of Roman Britain and was one of the start-points for Watling Street that ran on to Canterbury and then to London. Earth fortifications were first dug on the site in the 1st century, probably was as a storage depot and bridgehead Read more…
Penshurst Place is one of the most complete examples of a 14th Century manor house in England. The Manor House, once the property of King Henry VIII, was left to his son King Edward VI and granted to Sir William Sidney in 1552 and the Sidney family have been in continuous occupation ever since. The house and its gardens which are Read more…
The Weavers is one of the most famous and most photographed of Canterbury’s buildings. It was built, so all the books say, in 1500, and was intended to house the Flemish and Hugenot weavers who had fled France to flee religious persecution. Read more…
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