The Garden of England

For an endearing, enduring slice of old England head for Ashford and Tenterden's gorgeous surrounds.  Impossibly pretty villages, top-class restaurants and bewitching vineyards lie waiting to be explored.  Kent doesn't get quainter than this; postcard-pretty oast houses, hop gardens and orchards surround ancient barns.  Village pubs and tea rooms huddle cosily beside cricket greens.  Lyrical landscapes sweep all around.