Chiddingstone

Worth seeing in and around Chiddingstone

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Hever Castle

   Hever Castle is located in the village Hever, Kent, near Edenbridge, 30 miles southeast of London, England. It began as a country house, built in the 13th century.

   2.4 km · Grade I listed country house in Hever, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Penshurst Place

   Penshurst Place is a historic building near Penshurst, Kent, 32 miles southeast of London, England. It is the ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poets and courtiers, siblings Mary Sidney and Philip Sidney.

   2.8 km · historic building near Tonbridge, Kent in England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Chiddingstone Castle

   Chiddingstone Castle is situated in the village of Chiddingstone, near Edenbridge, Kent, England, 35 miles south-southeast of London and in the upper valley of the River Medway. The castle was built by the Streatfeild family and served as their seat from the early 16th century until the beginning of the 20th century when the family left the castle.

   400 m · house museum in Kent, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   How Green House

   How Green House is an architecturally important Arts and Crafts movement style country house near Hever in the Sevenoaks District of Kent. It was designed by Scottish architect Robert Weir Schultz and drawn by his assistant Cecil Wood.

   3.1 km · English country house · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Church of St John the Baptist, Penshurst

   St John the Baptist Church at Penshurst in Kent is a Grade I listed Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Rochester in England. Those buried or commemorated here include Knights, Earls, Viscounts, a Viceroy of India, a Governor-General of Australia, a Private Secretary to two Kings, two Field Marshals and two winners of the Victoria Cross.

   2.8 km · church in Penshurst, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Church of St Luke

   St Luke is a Grade II* listed Church of England church in Chiddingstone Causeway, Kent. It was built in 1897–1898 to a design by John Francis Bentley in a loosely Decorated Gothic Revival style, replacing a tin tabernacle.

   2.3 km · church in Chiddingstone Causeway, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Church of St Mary, Chiddingstone

   St. Mary the Virgin is a parish church in the united benefice of Chiddingstone, Penshurst, Chiddingstone Causeway and Fordcombe in the Anglican Diocese of Rochester.

   200 m · church in Chiddingstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Penshurst Park

   Penshurst Park Cricket Ground, also known as the Earl of Leicester's Park, is a cricket ground at Penshurst in Kent. It is one of the oldest cricket venues in England.

   2.8 km · Cricket ground in Kent, England · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Knole House

   Mar-Oct: daily 11AM-5PM (bookshop, cafe and carpark open at 10AM); Nov-Feb: showrooms closed, cafe and shop remain open; park us open year-round from dawn to dusk.

2. 02
   Sevenoaks Museum and Art Gallery

   Buckhurst Lane,.

3. 03
   Lullingstone Roman Villa

   Lullingstone Lane, Eynsford, DA4 0JA (8 miles north of Sevenoaks),.

4. 04
   Quebec House

   Quebec Square, Westerham, TN16 1TD (6 miles west of Sevenoaks), quebechouse@nationaltrust.org.uk.

5. 05
   Ightham Mote

   Mote Road, Ivy Hatch, Sevenoaks, TN15 0NT (6 miles east of Sevenoaks), ighthammote@nationaltrust.org.uk.

6. 06
   Emmetts Garden

   Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, TN14 6BA (5 miles west of Sevenoaks), emmetts@nationaltrust.org.uk.

From Wikivoyage: Chiddingstone, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

1. 01
   Knole Park

   See the deer admission free to pedestrians.

From Wikivoyage: Chiddingstone, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

1. 01
   St John's Fish Bar

   93 St Johns Hill, TN13 3PE,.

2. 02
   George and Dragon

   16th-century gastro-pub The Forge, Otford (main high street).

From Wikivoyage: Chiddingstone, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Chiddingstone

Airports

London Gatwick (LGW), 24 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 53 km · London Stansted (STN), 78 km

Stations

Penshurst railway station, 2.1 km · Hever railway station, 3.8 km · Penshurst Airfield, 2.9 km

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  41 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £6–7
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  41 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £6–7
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• Luton, Luton → Chiddingstone

  86 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–15
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