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Photo of Sissinghurst Castle, a Grade I registered house & garden near Cranbrook, Kent, south east England.

Sissinghurst CastlePhoto Steve Payne / Unsplash

Places to explore near Marden StationMarden

20 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group. 1 is a national icon.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of the High Weald, a National Landscape in south east England.Highlight

High Weald

National Landscape near Mayfield

Wooded ridges, sunken lanes and deep stream valleys across the old iron country of the south-east

4 km S

Photo of Goudhurst, a village in the High Weald, Kent, south east England.Highlight

Goudhurst

Village

Weald hilltop village rising from a duck pond to a big church, scene of a 1747 battle with smugglers

7.4 km S · Kent

Photo of Sissinghurst Castle, a Grade I registered house & garden near Cranbrook, Kent, south east England.Iconic

Sissinghurst Castle

House & garden near Cranbrook

Vita Sackville-West's famous romantic garden rooms.

9.1 km SE

Photo of Union Mill, a windmill near Cranbrook in the High Weald, Kent, south east England.Highlight

Union Mill

Windmill near Cranbrook

The tallest smock mill in England, white weatherboarded and still milling flour on the edge of Cranbrook.

9.5 km S

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Balfour Winery

Vineyard near Staplehurst

Winery of the Hush Heath Estate near Staplehurst, its cellar door and vine walks set among orchards and woodland.

3.2 km SE

Photo of the River Beult, a 25-mile river running from near Ashford to River Medway at Yalding, south east England.

River Beult

River

A slow clay river of the Kentish Weald, reckoned among the best lowland clay rivers left in England.

3.3 km N · Kent

Photo along the Greensand Way, a 108-mile long-distance path running from Haslemere to Hamstreet, south east England.

Greensand Way

Long-distance path

Along the sandy ridge below the chalk from Haslemere to Hamstreet, through the wooded hills of two protected landscapes to the edge of Romney Marsh.

5.5 km N · Surrey & Kent

Photo along the High Weald Landscape Trail, a 90-mile long-distance path running from Horsham to Rye, south east England.

High Weald Landscape Trail

Long-distance path

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

6 km SW · West Sussex, Kent & East Sussex

Photo of Sprivers, a house & garden near Goudhurst in the High Weald, Kent, south east England.

Sprivers

House & garden near Goudhurst

A National Trust place in Kent.

6.9 km SW

Photo of the River Medway, a 19-mile river navigation running from Tonbridge to Allington Lock, south east England.

River Medway

River navigation

Kent's river navigation, locking down the wooded Medway valley from Tonbridge to the tidal limit at Allington.

7.3 km NW · Kent

Photo of Wool House, Loose, a house & garden in Kent, south east England.

Wool House, Loose

House & garden near Loose

A National Trust place in Kent.

7.4 km N

Photo of Loose, a village in Kent, south east England.

Loose

Village

Village in a steep wooded valley of old cloth-fulling ponds and a packhorse causeway south of Maidstone.

7.5 km N · Kent

Sutton Valence Castle

Castle near Loose

Tower keep castle at Sutton Valence

8.4 km NE

Everything else within 10 km (7) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.