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Features and Attractions

Royal Tunbridge Wells

Tunbridge Wells - Features and Attractions Tunbridge Wells - Features and Attractions
  • Museum and Art Gallery - varied display of exhibits, including locally made 'Tunbridge ware', marquetry, local by-gones, toys and rural craft
  • Original Chalybeate Spring, discovered around 1606
  • 'A Day at the Wells' providing a fascinating look at the life in Georgian times
  • Several parks and sports facilities including tennis, golf, horse-riding, cricket and swimming
  • Elegant shops and tea rooms
  • Over 35 antique shops
  • Theatre - often featuring internationally known stars - from opera and ballet to comedy and mime
  • Cinema
  • The town's famous colonnaded shopping street known as the Pantiles
  • Arts centres
  • Lively pubs and restaurants
  • The Royal Victoria Place shopping centre - opened by Diana, Princess of Wales
  • Outdoor entertainment and festivals
  • Local countryside walks and cycling

Places to stay in and around Royal Tunbridge Wells

Self catering - Freedom Holiday Homes

Superb selection of self-catering holiday accommodation. Offering cottages, barns, granaries, oasts, and some unusual conversions throughout the beautiful counties of Kent and East Sussex.

www.freedomholidayhomes.co.uk

Bed and breakfast - Clarken Guest House

61 Frant Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5LH

10 minute walk to the Pantiles and 15 minutes from the mainline station.

Telephone: 01892 533397 - Sue and Barry Kench

Family run homely bed and breakfast. 4 ensuite family, double and twin rooms, plus two twins sharing one bathroom. There is also a self contained flat sleeping six.

Guideline rate: Ensuite: £28.20 per person per night; Sharing twin: £23.50 per person per night. Prices may change.

Hotels - The Royal Wells Inn

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Kent

Kent, widely referred to as the Garden of England, has many historic attractions from castles, museums and art galleries, historical homes and gardens to animal life and planes, trains and automobiles.

Kent - Features and Attractions

Castles, Museums and Art Galleries

  • Bayham Abbey
  • Museum of Kent Life
  • Hever Castle and Gardens
  • Leeds Castle
  • Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery
  • Tonbridge Castle
  • Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum

Animal Life

  • Drusillas Park
  • Eagle Heights Bird of Prey Centre
  • Groombridge Place
  • Ashdown Llama Farm
  • Nepicar Farm
  • Rare Breeds Centre
  • Sea Life Aquarium Hastings

Historical Homes and Gardens

  • Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest Gardens
  • Chartwell
  • Finchcocks
  • Great Dixter House and Gardens
  • The Hop Farm Country Park
  • Yalding Organic Gardens
  • Pashley Manor Gardens
  • Penshurst Place and Gardens

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

  • Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum
  • Bluebell Railway
  • Tenterden Railway Company
  • The Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial Building

More, More, More

  • Bewl Water
  • Groombridge Place
  • Tenterden Vineyard Park
  • Mill Yard Craft Centre
  • Pooh Corner
  • Smugglers Adventure
Alvis TE21 Convertible 1966
Alvis TE21 Convertible 1966
Austin Healey 3000 MKIII Convertible 1965
Austin Healey 3000 MKIII Convertible 1965
Bentley SIII 1964
Bentley SIII 1964
Jaguar E Type Coupe 2+2 4.2 1966
Jaguar E Type Coupe 2+2 4.2 1966
Jaguar E Type Series I Convertible 3.8 1963
Jaguar E Type Series I Convertible 3.8 1963
Jaguar MKII 3.4 1968
Jaguar MKII 3.4 1968
Jaguar XK 150S, 3.4 (OTS) 1957
Jaguar XK 150S, 3.4 (OTS) 1957
Mercedes Benz 280 SL 1970
Mercedes Benz 280 SL 1970
Rolls Royce Silver Shadow 1972
Rolls Royce Silver Shadow 1972

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