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Gardens & Cream Teas

What could be more English than a visit to a fabulous garden followed by traditional afternoon tea? Mix and match venues as you choose to make a special day out.

The Spa Hotel Royal Tunbridge Wells
Traditional afternoon tea and champagne afternoon teas served each afternoon - booking advisable. Resident harpist on Sundays

Groombridge Place Nr. Royal Tunbridge Wells
Romantic gardens surround a private moated house. Features include the Drunken Garden, Secret Garden and Oriental Garden. A canal with canal boat and The Enchanted Forest, a woodland with sculptures, add extra dimension. The house and gardens have featured in several film and TV programmes, most recently 'Pride and Prejudice' starring Keira Knightly. Self service restaurant.

Godinton House & Gardens Nr. Ashford
Historic house set amid beautiful gardens, including large walled garden, Wild Garden and Italianate Garden. Teas available when house open.

Peggoty's Tea Shoppe Tenterden
01580 764393
16th-century shop serving morning coffee, light lunches and afternoon teas with homemade scones and cakes and wide tea selection. Open daily.

Great Comp Garden Platt
7-acre plantsman's garden with formal and informal areas, created over the last 40 years. As well as many unusual plants, there are over 70 magnolias and planted urns dotted around the garden, along with homemade 'ruins'! The Old Dairy Tea Rooms are open every afternoon.

Teapot Island Yalding
Something a little out of the ordinary - a riverside museum of over 5,000 teapots... a Guinness Book of Records entry! As well as an onsite potter doing demonstrations and teapots and paint-your-own pottery for sale, Teapot Island also has its own café which serves cream teas.

Hole Park Gardens Rolvenden
Attractive 15-acre gardens flowering throughout the year, including rhododendrons, bluebells and roses. Features include rare climbing wisteria, clipped yew hedges, formal and informal areas. Small nursery shop and tea room.

George & Dragon Tea Room Headcorn
01622 890239
Kentish Cream Teas served all day - over 30 types of tea; homemade meringues a speciality. Also morning coffee and lunches. Over 300 rescued teddy bears hidden among hops on display.

Chartwell Westerham
Sir Winston Churchill's beloved Kent home. The beautiful rose and water gardens were commissioned by the Churchills. The terraced hillside gardens, the walled kitchen garden with its Golden Rose Walk and the garden studio where Churchill painted can all also be seen. Several walks with Wealden views. Tea room.

Penshurst Place
Formal gardens surrounding an historic house include an 11-acre Walled Garden, a Union Flag Garden, Italianate Gardens, orchards and much more.
The Garden Tea Room offers coffee, light lunches and cream teas.

Fir Tree House Tea Rooms Penshurst
01892 870382
Tudor tea room with homemade cakes, log fire and summer garden. (Open afternoons only).

The Watermark Restaurant Eynsford
Award winning restaurant, run by well-known chef Guy Massey, at the foot of the famous Eynsford Bridge. Serves cream teas.