Manor Court Farm in Kent is ideally situated for visiting a wealth of historic houses and gardens, the coast, Oast houses, hop gardens and the lovely countryside in South East of England. We are on the border of Kent and Sussex- both are very pretty counties. Kent is known as 'the garden of England'.

Within easy reach are Penshurst Place and gardens, Hever Castle, Bedgebury pinetum, Brogdale fruit garden, Chartwell (the home of Winston Churchill), Great Dixter house and gardens, Leeds Castle, Chiddingstone Castle, Ightham Mote, Bodiam Castle, Knole (where Vita Sackville-West was born), Sissinghurst Castle (renowned for its beautiful gardens created by the same Vita, where she lived later in her life), Groombridge Place with Enchanted Garden (just one mile away), Pooh Corner and Hundred Acre Wood (5 miles), Scotney Castle, Ashdown Forest, and Standen (the home of William Morris). Many other private local homes and gardens are open on certain days each year - we can give you advice and help you plan your outings.

A number of well-known towns are also within easy reach, including the once fashionable spa town of Tunbridge Wells (just 10 minutes away), with its excellent new shopping precinct, the cathedral city of Canterbury, the maritime center with its Historic Dockyard at Chatham, the seaside towns of Brighton (famous for its 'Royal Pavilion' and 'The Lanes', where there are countless antique shops), Hastings and Eastbourne. The charming ancient small town of Rye, with its thriving artists community, is well worth an outing.

London is easy to reach by train - it takes only 42 minutes from Tonbridge to Charing Cross, and there are usually four trains an hour.

The fallow deer below were photographed 200m from the farm house!