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Note the weatherboarded houses, so typical of Kent.

It summons up the essence of the old county of Kent with its hop gardens and orchards.

A typical village of the Kent Weald, with its weatherboarded cottages clustered round its green, Bethersden was once famous for its paludrina marble extracted from the local clay and consisting of the

The west window was given by Queen Victoria in memory of her father the Duke of Kent, who died in Sidmouth in 1820.

The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway.

The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway.

Who can fault this lovely view of typical rural Kent?

The George Hotel, right, and the tobacconist and the teashop pictured nearby shared the village with Kent's smallest pub, the Little Gem.

Said to be one of the finest town churches in Kent, the parish church is built of Kentish ragstone and has an impressive interior.

The county runs out here: the roads from Dormansland lead a short way to the border with either Kent or Sussex.

It teems with traffic, and it is the County Town of Kent. A

Stramongate Bridge was also known as Miller or Mill Bridge, because it linked the mills on the eastern bank of the River Kent to the 'Auld Grey Town' on the other bank.

Bordering the wonderful weald of Kent, Chipstead is near the great house of Chevening - a favourite spot for Prince Charles.

It was badly damaged by fire in 1602, but still watches over the Kent Estuary beneath the limestone mass of Arnside Knott, seen here rising to the left of the picture.

Lord Nelson had breakfast here, and a young Queen Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, stayed overnight.

Then, the well-to-do of the area used to have their coaches drawn by oxen in order to negotiate safely the boggy roads, which in bad weather were reputed to be the worst in Kent.

A little further north is Horse Guards, a fine building by William Kent of the 1750s and one of the earlier surviving government offices.

This is the largest parish church in Kent, 227 feet long, and dates from 1395 when the original church on the site was completely rebuilt by Archbishop Courtenay.

Lord Nelson had breakfast here, and a young Queen Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, stayed overnight.

Ticehurst is an old Roman habitation near the Kent border.