Houses & gardens in KentKent, England

Vita Sackville-West's famous romantic garden rooms.

Storybook castle set on its own island lake.

Sprawling calendar house in a deer park.

Ruined moated castle in a picture garden.

The national conifer collection, laced with waymarked trails and a treetop cycle route.

A Georgian mansion with a walled garden, pinetum and a noted collection of clocks.

Churchill's home with Weald-facing gardens.

A Victorian garden known for its towering clipped yew cloud hedges.

A Victorian public park of lakes and lawns in a chalk valley near Dover.

Edwardian terraced gardens with a Japanese rock garden and a hillside vineyard.

A hillside garden of rhododendrons and azaleas around a walled rose garden.

Perfectly preserved medieval moated manor.

Medieval baronial hall and walled gardens.

A hilltop Edwardian shrub garden on one of Kent's highest points, famed for bluebells.

Seven-acre plantsman's garden threaded with folly ruins, heathers and salvias, near Borough Green.

Stone hall built by the Knights Templar around 1240 at Strood, probably to lodge travellers on Watling Street, with 17th-century brick additions.

Organic seaside garden with a lake, a grass labyrinth and a Churchill statue, at St Margaret's Bay.

The Foreign Secretary's residence, with formal French gardens, a lake and a maze.

A Jacobean house with formal topiary and a walled kitchen garden on the edge of Ashford.

A Georgian mansion of 1732 where Jane Austen's brother lived, said to have shaped Mansfield Park.

A National Trust place in Kent.

A National Trust place in Kent.

A National Trust place in Kent.

A National Trust place in Kent.

A National Trust place in Kent.

A National Trust place in Kent.

A National Trust place in Kent.

A National Trust place in Kent.

A National Trust place in Kent.