NATIONAL TRUST ATTRACTIONS
Batemans - 15 minutes
Lamb House - 10 minutes
Scotney
Castle - 30 minutes
Smallhythe Place - 25
minutes
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CASTLES
Battle Abbey - 10 minutes
Bodiam
Castle - 10 minutes
Camber - 20 minutes
Hastings - 15 minutes
Herstmonceux castle and observatory - 20 minutes
Rye - 20 minutes
Pevensey
- 25 minutes
Leeds - 50 minutes
Hever - 45 minutes
Scotney - 30minutes
CATHERDRALS
AND CHURCHES
Canterbury - 1 hour
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GARDENS
Bedgebury
Pinetum - 20 minutes
Merriments - 10 minutes
Hole Park Rolvenden - 20 minutes
Great Dixter house and gardens - 10 minutes
Lamb House - 10 minutes
Pashley
Manor - 20 minutes
Sissinghurst Place -
25 minutes
Scotney - 30 minutes
Sheffield Park - 45 minutes
Goddington Hall and gardens, Ashford - 45 minutes
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VILLAGES
OF INTEREST
Rye - cobbled streets
and antiques - 20 minutes
Hastings - old
town has Castle, Aquarium, Museums, fishing, children's play park and amusements - 15 minutes
Tenterden - lovely old Medieval buildings and high class shops - 25 minutes
Afriston - quaint village with small shops
Tunbridge Wells - famous Spa town of historic interest - visit
the pantiles area - 25 minutes - (also commercial shopping available at the opposite end of town)
Eastbourne - Airborne show in the summer and tennis at Manor Gardens, also great shopping, lovely
sea front gardens - 45 minutes
Robertsbridge
- Medeaval architecture - 10 minutes
Brighton
- The Lanes - lovely speciality shops
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MUSEUMS
Battle - Abbey and Yesterday's World - 10 minutes
Rye Castle Museum - 20 minutes
Court Hall Winchelsea - 25 minutes
Fishermans
museum - 20 minutes
Flower makers museum
- 20 minutes
Batemans - 20 minutes
Smallhythe Place - 25 minutes
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BEACHES
Camber sands - lovely sand dunes, best beaches for miles - 20 minutes
Hastings -pebbles - 15 minutes
Winchelsea - pebbles - 20 minutes
Hythe - sand - 45 minutes
Eastbourne
- pebbles - 45 minutes
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RAILWAYS
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch - 45 minutes
Bodiam steam railway - 10 minutes - take trip to Tenterden/Northiam
Kent and East Sussex - 10 minutes
Lavender Line - 35 minutes
Bluebell
Railway - 50 minutes
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GOLF COURSES
Sedlescombe
- 5 minutes
Dale Hill - 15 minutes
Beauport Park - 10 minutes
1066
Golf Club - 15 minutes
Battle - 15 minutes
Rye - 15 minutes
Weald of Kent - 25 minutes
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OUTDOOR PERSUITS
Knockhatch - dry ski slope, mountaineering - 40 minutes
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CLAY
PIGEON SHOOTING
Willow Farm - 25
minutes
West Kent - 50 minutes
Northall CPC - 50 minutes
Detling - 50 minutes
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VINEYARDS
Sedlescombe - 5 minutes
Carr
Taylor - 10 minutes
Chapel Down - 20 minutes
Lamberhurst - 15 minutes
Biddenden - 20 minutes
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ZOOS
Port Lympe - 50 minutes
Drusillas
- 40 minutes
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AQUARIUMS
Underwater world - 15 minutes
Brighton
aquarium - 1 hour
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FISHING
Hawkhurst - 5 minutes
Iden
Wood - 15 minutes
Rye Nook- 15 minutes
Tenterden - 25 minutes
Wylands angling centre - 15 minutes
Decoy lake - 20minutes
Bewl
Water - 15 minutes
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Rye Heritage Centre - 20 minutes
Farm World - 10 minutes
Smugglers
Adventure - 15 minutes
De La Warr Pavillion
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LOCAL EVENTS
Staplecross
Bonfire celebrations -
Battle Bonfire
Lewes Bonfire
Robertsbridge Bonfire
Rye
Bonfire
Airborne - Eastbourne
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THEATRES & CONCERTS
White Rock Theatre Hastings
Tunbridge
Wells
Devonshire Park Eastbourne
Battle Abbey open air concerts
Leeds Castle open air concerts
