Places to explore near Cowden StationCowden

Moated childhood home of Anne Boleyn.

3.4 km N

Single street of Tudor houses owned almost whole by the National Trust, beside a moated mock castle.

4.3 km NE · Kent

Wealden village at the gates of Penshurst Place, its churchyard reached through the arch of a Tudor house.

5.1 km E · Kent

An old railway line between East Grinstead and Groombridge turned into a flat, easy-going walking and cycling trail through the Weald

5.5 km S

Medieval baronial hall and walled gardens.

6.3 km NE

Chalk hills, ancient woods and orchards, ending in the white cliffs above the Channel

7.2 km N

The wooden bridge where A. A. Milne set Poohsticks, reached by a short walk from Chuck Hatch.

7.9 km S

Heathland ridges, the real Winnie-the-Pooh country.

8.2 km SW

Largest Southern Sandstone outcrop, with hundreds of climbing routes through birch woodland managed by the BMC.

8.3 km SE

Village dining pub run by the Tanner brothers just outside Tunbridge Wells.

8.9 km E

A wooded greensand ridge of National Trust paths near Westerham, with views south over the Weald.

9.6 km N

Round inland Sussex on the old county boundary from Emsworth to Rye — nearly 150 miles of quiet country for the busy South East.

1.1 km S · spans 5 counties

Low-beamed country inn dating from the 15th century, on a lane near Chiddingstone.

4 km E

From East Croydon station to the sea at Newhaven, named for the rambling club founded in a crowded train's guard's van in 1965.

4.2 km W · spans 4 counties

Weatherboarded 15th-century inn at Smarts Hill, its terraces looking out across the Weald.

4.5 km E

Estuary to sea across Kent and Sussex — Gravesend to Eastbourne over the North Downs, the deep Weald and a Beachy Head finish.

5.2 km SE · East Sussex & Kent

Horsham to Rye through the High Weald's ridge villages and hammer ponds — iron country, worked for two thousand years.

5.3 km S · West Sussex, Kent & East Sussex

Dining pub with rooms near Withyham, on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest.

6.4 km S