Little Rock Guidebook
Food scene
The Pantiles
The PantilesGood outdoor restaurants, regular market, music and shoping
This is a great organic farm shop. Wonderful fruit, vegetables and bread. Pick your own flowers. Check out the meat in the fridge from Tablehurst Farm in Forest Row. It tastes like meat used to taste, but it is eye-wateringly expensive! Tell Kate, the owner, mad Stuart sent you!
Cherry Gardens Hill
This is a great organic farm shop. Wonderful fruit, vegetables and bread. Pick your own flowers. Check out the meat in the fridge from Tablehurst Farm in Forest Row. It tastes like meat used to taste, but it is eye-wateringly expensive! Tell Kate, the owner, mad Stuart sent you!
Basil
1-3 Lime Hill RdLovely salads and snacks
The best Japanese and Sushi restaurant in Tunbridge Wells. Tiny restaurant with formica tables, very good value. Get there early to secure a table, or be prepared to wait.
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Kitsu Sushi & Noodle Bar
82A Victoria RdThe best Japanese and Sushi restaurant in Tunbridge Wells. Tiny restaurant with formica tables, very good value. Get there early to secure a table, or be prepared to wait.
Kai’s Kitchen
14 Mount Pleasant RdThai food of a good standard, very affordable.
A 20-minute walk from the house, this is a classic British pub offering good beer and food and a lovely open fire. Next to Eridge Station.
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The Huntsman
Groombridge LaneA 20-minute walk from the house, this is a classic British pub offering good beer and food and a lovely open fire. Next to Eridge Station.
Descent bread, cakes, and sweet treats in Groombridge village. But better bread at Cherry Gardens, and you will get lovely fruit and veg there too.
The Village Bakery
Station RoadDescent bread, cakes, and sweet treats in Groombridge village. But better bread at Cherry Gardens, and you will get lovely fruit and veg there too.
Lovely meat and cheese. It is all local.
The selection of delicious cheeses made in a 30 mile radius is simply amazing and wonderful!
There has been such a renaissance of English cheeses in the last decades, and this place is a testimony to that.
The beef is dry aged in salt-lined chilling rooms you can see behind the counter.
All the meat is of the highest quality, as are the pies and other produce.
But the Bread, Fruit and Veg & Eggs are even better at Cherry Gardens Hill!
If you want a particular cut, and they don't have it there, ask them to check if they have any in their original branch in Hawkenbery on the South West side of Tunbridge Wells.
If you are coming at Christmas get your order in in good time!
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Fuller's Farm Shop
Bunny LaneLovely meat and cheese. It is all local.
The selection of delicious cheeses made in a 30 mile radius is simply amazing and wonderful!
There has been such a renaissance of English cheeses in the last decades, and this place is a testimony to that.
The beef is dry aged in salt-lined chilling rooms you can see behind the counter.
All the meat is of the highest quality, as are the pies and other produce.
But the Bread, Fruit and Veg & Eggs are even better at Cherry Gardens Hill!
If you want a particular cut, and they don't have it there, ask them to check if they have any in their original branch in Hawkenbery on the South West side of Tunbridge Wells.
If you are coming at Christmas get your order in in good time!
Broadwater Forest Lane
Broadwater Forest LaneGreat Asparagus in season
Groombridge Farm Shop
Groombridge HillAnother great farm shop. Another asparagus farm!
A great restaurant destined for a Michelin star. You will need to book well ahead. Fine dining, well worth the price.
Tallow
15A Church RoadA great restaurant destined for a Michelin star. You will need to book well ahead. Fine dining, well worth the price.
A great new restaurant in Tunbridge Wells, fine dining. A recent visit to this restaurant was less than satisfactory. If you go, please let me know what you think of it!
The Lyle
119 Forest RdA great new restaurant in Tunbridge Wells, fine dining. A recent visit to this restaurant was less than satisfactory. If you go, please let me know what you think of it!
The Crown Inn
A nice pub in Groombridge Village, lovely open fires, good beer, decent food
Bottle House Inn
Coldharbour RoadExcellent food with an up and coming chef. Highly recommended.
City/town information
Great shopping and eating. Check out The Pantiles for both these, and its markets and Roman waters.
Wander up the High Street for nice boutiques.
Don't miss the lovely church of King Charles The Martyr, a royalist tribute to the King decapitated by Cromwell's Parliamentarians in the Civil War.
For all the main retail brands check out the Victoria Centre at the top of the Town, and hang out at the Clock Tower for a coffee.
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Royal Tunbridge Wells
Great shopping and eating. Check out The Pantiles for both these, and its markets and Roman waters.
Wander up the High Street for nice boutiques.
Don't miss the lovely church of King Charles The Martyr, a royalist tribute to the King decapitated by Cromwell's Parliamentarians in the Civil War.
For all the main retail brands check out the Victoria Centre at the top of the Town, and hang out at the Clock Tower for a coffee.
The closest supermarkets: Waitrose, Liddle, Morrisons.
Birth place of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Crowborough
The closest supermarkets: Waitrose, Liddle, Morrisons.
Birth place of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Rye is really lovely old town, one of the Cinq Ports. Close to wonderful beaches of Camber Sands. Go to the Mermaid Inn for a drink or a meal, it is one of the oldest pubs in England dating back to the 12th century.
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Rye Castle Museum - Ypres Tower
Rye is really lovely old town, one of the Cinq Ports. Close to wonderful beaches of Camber Sands. Go to the Mermaid Inn for a drink or a meal, it is one of the oldest pubs in England dating back to the 12th century.
Sightseeing
Get to London Bridge from Eridge Station in 50 minutes.
Otherwise get the steam train on the Spa Valley Railway into Tunbridge Wells for a day out.
Spa Valley Railway - (Eridge, Station)
Get to London Bridge from Eridge Station in 50 minutes.
Otherwise get the steam train on the Spa Valley Railway into Tunbridge Wells for a day out.
Harrisons Rocks are across the valley looking out from the house.
They are a lovely place to walk, and the climbing is fun too.
Just walk out of the house and down the garden across the field beneath you and out of the gate. Turn right onto Forge Road and after c 300m left across the railway line to the rocks where you will find lovely circular walks, and great places for kids and adults to explore, with or without ropes!
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Harrison's Rocks
Harrisons Rocks are across the valley looking out from the house.
They are a lovely place to walk, and the climbing is fun too.
Just walk out of the house and down the garden across the field beneath you and out of the gate. Turn right onto Forge Road and after c 300m left across the railway line to the rocks where you will find lovely circular walks, and great places for kids and adults to explore, with or without ropes!
This is where you find all the big retail brands. Or you can hang out by the Clock Tower and have a coffee.
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Royal Victoria Place
This is where you find all the big retail brands. Or you can hang out by the Clock Tower and have a coffee.
If you want to have a go at climbing with ropes check out the Bowles Rocks Outdoor centre. There is lot's going on there, even a ski slope! It is a couple of miles away, turn right on to A26 towards Crowborough and then left after half a mile or so,
Bowles Centre
Sandhill LaneIf you want to have a go at climbing with ropes check out the Bowles Rocks Outdoor centre. There is lot's going on there, even a ski slope! It is a couple of miles away, turn right on to A26 towards Crowborough and then left after half a mile or so,
A lovely church erected by a royalist town in memory of the King decapitated in the Civil War.
The church was the first permanent building in Tunbridge Wells.
It is one of the finest examples of English Baroque architecture.
You will walk past it going between The Pantiles and The High Street.
Check it out!
King Charles the Martyr
3 Warwick ParkA lovely church erected by a royalist town in memory of the King decapitated in the Civil War.
The church was the first permanent building in Tunbridge Wells.
It is one of the finest examples of English Baroque architecture.
You will walk past it going between The Pantiles and The High Street.
Check it out!
A wonderful place to catch an event, or just walk around the gardens.
The Draughtsman's Contract, one of the great films of Derek Jarman was made here.
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Groombridge Place Estates
Groombridge HillA wonderful place to catch an event, or just walk around the gardens.
The Draughtsman's Contract, one of the great films of Derek Jarman was made here.
A good spot for some "wild" swimming in the Medway. Park beyond (North) of the bridge on the left.
Ensfield Bridge
Ensfield RoadA good spot for some "wild" swimming in the Medway. Park beyond (North) of the bridge on the left.
Bewl Vatn
Bewlbridge LaneLovely walks and cycling around the reservoir. Watersports.
Great Mountain Biking trails. Hire or bring your own.
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Bedgebury National Pinetum og Skógur
Bedgebury RoadGreat Mountain Biking trails. Hire or bring your own.
Churchill's home is a fascinating place to visit. You get such a strong sense of the man's prodigious energy and productivity. Beautiful setting in the North downs.
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Chartwell
Mapleton RoadChurchill's home is a fascinating place to visit. You get such a strong sense of the man's prodigious energy and productivity. Beautiful setting in the North downs.
Beautiful gardens designed by Christopher Lloyd, and a lovely old house.
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Great Dixter House & Gardens
Beautiful gardens designed by Christopher Lloyd, and a lovely old house.
A bleak shingle beach close to Rye notable for the nuclear power station. The real attraction is Derek Jarman's cottage garden and the overall setting which feels like you have stepped back in time.
Dungeness Beach
A bleak shingle beach close to Rye notable for the nuclear power station. The real attraction is Derek Jarman's cottage garden and the overall setting which feels like you have stepped back in time.
Bateman's
Bateman's LaneRudyard Kipling's home. A lovely house and gardens.
Wonderful gardens, and nearby Cranbrook is a lovely old market town, well worth visiting whilst you are in the area
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Biddenden RdWonderful gardens, and nearby Cranbrook is a lovely old market town, well worth visiting whilst you are in the area
Good high-end shopping on the old High Street. Restaurants and cafes.
High St, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Tunbridge Wells TN1, UK
Good high-end shopping on the old High Street. Restaurants and cafes.
Arts
A must for opera lovers. Book tickets well in advance. 40 minutes' drive.
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Glyndebourne
New RoadA must for opera lovers. Book tickets well in advance. 40 minutes' drive.
Tudely Church has beautiful stained glass windows designed by Chagal. Well worth a visit, and don't miss nearby Capel Church.
Tudeley
Tudely Church has beautiful stained glass windows designed by Chagal. Well worth a visit, and don't miss nearby Capel Church.
This is a beautiful Grade 1 listed church in Tunbridge Wells, between The Pantiles and the High Street
King Charles the Martyr
This is a beautiful Grade 1 listed church in Tunbridge Wells, between The Pantiles and the High Street