A day out with Thomas 22nd July to the 24th July. At Tenterden Town

Tickets for A Day Out with Thomas 22nd - 24th July are now on sale!!  at the Kent and East Sussex Railway   Ticket is valid all ...

Sunday 16 April 2017

Top 5 Things to do in Tenterden

1. Kent and East Sussex Railway


The picturesque line weaves between Tenterden and Bodiam for 10.5 miles. Experience travel and service from a bygone age aboard beautifully restored coaches and locomotives dating from Victorian times.

    Website www.kesr.org.uk



2. Chapel Down

England's leading winemaker and one of the UK's most exciting drinks companies

Chapel Down produces a world-class range of sparkling and still wines, together with the award-winning range of Curious beers & cider.  Our sparkling wines are created using the Traditional Method, the same as Champagne, from fruit sourced from the South-East of England.

Website www.chapeldown.com




3. High Street

Tenterden's broad, tree-lined High Street offers a selection of shopping facilities, making the town an important destination for a number of smaller towns and villages in the area. It has a busy town centre which is home to many small boutiques and antique shops, as well as craft shops, book shops and various banks, side by side with larger national retailers. There is also a large Tesco which is accessible to pedestrians from the High Street (and by vehicles from Smallhythe Road), and a Waitrose store accessed by pedestrians from Sayers Lane



4. Smallhythe Place

Smallhythe Place in Small Hythe, near Tenterden in Kent, is a half-timbered house built in the late 15th or early 16th century and since 1947 cared for by the National Trust. The house was originally called 'Port House' and before the River Rother and the sea receded it served a thriving shipyard: in Old English hythe means "landing place".


It was the home of the Victorian actress Ellen Terry from 1899 to her death in the house in 1928. The house contains Ellen Terry's theatre collection, while the cottage grounds include her rose garden, orchard, nuttery and the working Barn Theatre




5. Colonel Stephens Railway Museum

 Recording the Career of Holman Fred Stephens, Light RailwayPromoter, Engineer and Manager, His Family, His Railways and His Successors.


This extraordinary collection of materials, vividly telling the story of Colonel Stephens and his exotic collection of bizarre railways' (Sir Neil Cossons, Director, National Science Museum)