A Kent country-house garden of walled rooms, avenues and a Jungle Garden, where Jane Austen was a regular visitor.
From King's Cross St Pancras: ~2 h 13 min by train · 2 h 27 min by car
Travel times by TravelTime
Time there: 1.5–2.5 h
Get directionsA walled garden of three enclosures linked by a central lawn, with views to the village's 12th-century church, sits beside a Queen Anne manor house.
Beyond the walls are a lime avenue, arboretums, a woodland garden, a holly walk and an exotic Jungle Garden, so the planting changes from room to room.
Jane Austen visited often because her brother married a daughter of the house, and the 18th-century Serpentine Walk was reinstated in 2014 along the route she would have used.
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