Bodiam Castle, Sussex. © Mark Breck
From shopping and partying in Brighton to experiencing Victorian England in Charles Dickens's Rochester, and walking the 'whale-backed' chalk downs of Sussex to tasting the produce of Kent's famous breweries, there's so much to do in the South East.
Seafarers won't want to miss the Historic Dockyard at Chatham, while bookworms will want to visit the homes and stamping grounds of Kipling and the Bloomsbury Group – among many other local writers and artists. Historians head straight for the castles – Bodiam, Leeds, Arundel, Hever, Dover and many more – and for two of England's oldest and loveliest cathedrals, Canterbury and Rochester. Military buffs will want to visit Battle, the site of the Battle of Hastings, Churchill's home at Chartwell, and maybe launch into a Vera Lynn songfest on the White Cliffs of Dover (please don't!).
There's a 14th-century house to visit at Alfriston in Sussex, and a Roman palace near Chichester. Superb Elizabethan gardens to enjoy at Herstmonceaux Castle and Henry James's lovely 18th-century house at Rye. A Bronze-Age boat to wonder at in Dover, Vita Sackville-West's amazing garden at Sissinghurst, and the ruins of the abbey founded by St Augustine in Canterbury. In Surrey, we can take you to Runnymede, where King John signed the Magna Carta, the Edwardian extravaganza of Polesden Lacey, and the Brooklands Motorsport and Aviation Museum at our first motor-racing track.
The list of must-sees is almost endless!
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Brighton Fairground. © Mark Doyle