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About Kent

Location:  South East England, bordered by the Counties of East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, Thurrock and Medway

Kent is known as The Market Garden of England due to its fruit farming, hop-growing and warm year-round weather.

Main Events & Places of Interest: 

  • Country Parks at Brockhill, Haysden, Shorne Woods, Lullingstone and Trosley
  • Hever Castle, Edenbridge was once home to Ann Boleyn
  • Sissinghurst, once home of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
  • Whitstable Oyster Festival
  • The Historic Dockyard, Chatham
  • Walled Garden Music Festival, Tonbridge
  • Igtham Mote
  • Tenterden, wonderful village for shopping
  • Canterbury Cathedral
  • Chartwell, once the home of Winston Churchill
  • Ashford Designer outlets 
  • Royal Tunbridge Wells is definitely worth a visit

Council:  Kent County Council, based in Maidstone

See also www.VisitKent.co.uk