# Kent Ramblers: Walk 80

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## Points of Interest

### Water Tower House

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You will catch glimpses of a 
						water tower that was converted into a house as a project 
						featured on an episode of the Grand Designs television 
						series.

### Great Maytham Hall

The Hall was once the home of 
						author Frances Hodgson Burnett. The gardens are said to 
						have been the inspiration for her book The Secret 
						Garden.

### Rolvenden

The C M Booth Motor Museum is 
						tucked away behind an antique shop in the High Street, 
						boasting a unique collection of Morgan 3 three-wheel 
						cars. The Star Inn in the village is a Grade II listed 
						building and was formerly the village poor house.

### Rolvenden Windmill

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The post mill visible on this 
						walk may be the oldest windmill in Kent of which 
						anything remains, perhaps the original mill that was 
						shown standing here on a map of 1596.  It was a 
						corn mill, last used around 1883 to 1885 and virtually 
						derelict by the end of World War I when parts were 
						burned for firewood by troop stationed in the area.  
						It was restored in 1956, paid for by a Mr & Mrs Barham 
						in memory of their son who was killed in a road 
						accident.

### Saxbys

![](https://www.kentramblers.org.uk/KentWalks/public/images/P080c.jpg)

T-shaped restored C16 or earlier 
						timber framed building with plaster infilling, the 
						ground floor rebuilt in red brick.

### Public Transport

Rolvenden is served by the 297 
						bus from Tunbridge Wells to Tenterden which runs every 
						couple of hours except on Sundays when there is no 
						service.

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