Known as theJewel of the Weald, Tenterden offers the best of all worlds - fascinating history, a wealth of architecture, family fun and excellent shopping - all within everyones idea of a typical country town. It;s also home to the steam trains of the Kent and East Sussex Railway.
At its center are the tree-lined greens that distance you from the world going by. So you can shop at a relaxed pace.
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 day, meet the Fat Controller, take unlimited rides down the line (apx 20 mins) behind Thomas, enjoy platform rides behind a real steam engine, soft play, bouncy castles, unlimited rides on the carousel, facepainting, balloon modelling, storytelling with Rusty & Dusty, magic shows and much more!
Join the Kent & East Sussex Railway as they welcome Thomas for a day of family fun. A ticket for Day Out With Thomas includes the train ride with Thomas as well as a variety of Thomas & Friends™ themed entertainment. Guests will also have the opportunity to meet The Fat Controller from the Island of Sodor. EVENTS
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Location: Kent & East Sussex Railway , Kent, TN30 6HE July 22nd-24th 2017
Children of 14 years of age and under must be supervised by an adult at all times
Tenterden Folk Festival takes place over four days with folk song, music, dance, crafts and traditions.
Tenterden, situated in the ancient Weald of Kent, about 12 miles west of Ashford, is an ideal setting for this friendly, family folk festival. It features one of the widest High Streets in the country lined with historic and listed buildings, numerous friendly pubs, cafes and restaurants and green verges.
Events:Events at the festival include an English Barn Dance, concerts, sing-a-rounds, music sessions, folk clubs, special shows, a craft fair and street stalls, music stalls, free music and dance stages on the Recreation Ground, Morris dancers, dance displays, procession, showcases, meet the guest spots, workshops, dancers and musicians on the Kent and East Sussex Railway, events for children and much more besides.
Venues and public houses:Festival venues include The Evans Bar and Moulton Hall upstairs in the Tenterden Club, St Mildred’s Parish Church, St Mildred’s Church Hall, The Town Hall, The Saddlery, The Recreation Ground and the High Street, There are also events in The Woolpack, The White Lion, The Vine, The William Caxton and The Indulgence Cake and Coffee House.
Welcome barn dance:The English barn dance is a regular feature of the festival and is always very popular. As well as the barn dance there is often a chance to try other forms of traditional folk dancing over the long weekend. Concerts:The main concerts on Saturday and Sunday are held in the Tenterden Club with smaller acoustic concerts, including concerts on Friday, being held in the Saddlery at The White Lion. There is a special fundraising concert on Thursday in the Town Hall. Crafts fair, music stalls, other stalls and also street stalls:The free craft fair and other stalls will be in a large marquee on The Recreation Ground, just off the High Street. The marquee will act as the venue for the popular free music and dance stages. There will also be even more street stalls in the High Street.
Sing-a-rounds and music sessions:
One of the highlights of Tenterden Folk Festival for many of the participants are the numerous friendly and informal sing-a-rounds and music sessions. With a choice of four town centre pubs there is sure to be a session that suits your taste going on in at least one of these venues.
Workshops and meet the guest sessions:
is a charity formed to preserve and advance public education and appreciation of folk music, song, dance, crafts and traditions as part of the living heritage. Therefore we offer you a chance to “Meet” some of the guests in informal sessions. We also offer workshops where you can hear about folk related topics or traditions or improve your own skills. Dance displays:Tenterden is “the Jewel of the Weald” and over the Festival weekend it has even more colour and sparkle than usual as hundreds of Morris men and women and other folk dancers take to the streets of the town centre. The majority of teams are Morris dance sides of varying styles, from the Cotswold tradition and Black-faced Border style, to clog to garland dancers. The teams you will see will be both men’s, women’s and mixed sides and come from all over England. It’s not just Morris you will see as Tenterden is regularly host to teams performing traditional dances from Scotland, Ireland, England, Slovakia and the Appalachian Mountains of North America. There is also Saturday’s popular procession along the High Street.
The members of ‘Tenterden Dementia Friendly Community’ have started holding a weekly memory cafe at the Tenterden station refreshment room.This is a volunteer led and run cafe designed to allow people to come along and meet others.
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
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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 Englishhythe 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)
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