Chartwell

Winston Churchill's country home in Kent, where he painted, built garden walls and looked out over the Weald.

From King's Cross St Pancras: 1 h 30 min by train · 1 h 32 min by car

Travel times by TravelTime

Time there: 3.5–6.5 h, including 2 places nearby

EstateGardens & parksStately homes

Must-see places

Quebec House

Historic house · The Westerham home where General James Wolfe grew up, with period rooms, a walled garden and a coach house exhibition.

Emmetts Garden

Garden · An Edwardian garden on one of the highest ridges in Kent, with an arboretum, rock garden and views across the Weald.

Churchill bought Chartwell in 1922 for £5,000, and it was the view over the Weald of Kent that decided him.

The studio he built in the 1930s still holds a large collection of his paintings, along with his easel and paints.

The hillside gardens run down to lakes he shaped, past walls he built himself and the Golden Rose Walk, with thirty-two varieties of golden roses.

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