Kent Ramblers: Walk 85

Points of Interest

Sissinghurst Castle

The home of Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicholson...

...where they created their acclaimed garden.

Woodland Walk

Lots of bluebells in spring...

...and some fine lakes full of fish.

Frittenden

The prominent chimney on your right as you approach Frittenden was for a boiler to generate steam to operate machinery in a timber yard belonging to the village builder Charles Pearson. Dates are not clear but it seems that the business was operating at least until just before World War I.

Public Transport

Getting to Sissinghurst by public transport is not easy. There are buses from Maidstone to the village but there is then still over a mile to walk to the Castle. There are buses from Tunbridge Wells to Cranbrook from where you can do a 10.2 mile circular walk that includes Sissinghurst Castle ' this is described in the first of our guides listed below.

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