# Kent Ramblers: Walk 85

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## Points of Interest

### Sissinghurst Castle

![](https://www.kentramblers.org.uk/KentWalks/public/images/P085a.jpg)

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

![](https://www.kentramblers.org.uk/KentWalks/public/images/P085e.jpg)

...where they created their acclaimed garden.

### Woodland Walk

![](https://www.kentramblers.org.uk/KentWalks/public/images/P085b.jpg)

Lots of bluebells in spring...

![](https://www.kentramblers.org.uk/KentWalks/public/images/P085c.jpg)

...and some fine lakes full of 
						fish.

### Frittenden

![](https://www.kentramblers.org.uk/KentWalks/public/images/P085d.jpg)

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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