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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.

The Rutland Arms Hotel, designed by John Kent, was built in 1815 on the site of the Ram Inn.

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

These old vessels were vital carriers of coal, fruit, vegetables and building materials from Kent, Essex and other east-coast ports.

Nearby is Scotney Castle, owned at this time by one of the Hussey family, historic ironmasters of Kent.

Indeed, it is known as the Middleton of Alfred the Great, and its flint and stone Holy Trinity Church is the second oldest in Kent. A

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.

At one time sheep from Romney Marsh in Kent were wintered here on the relatively dry sandy Surrey Hills.

Scenes like this, so typical of rural Kent, became rare after the mid-century decline of hop growing made hundreds of oast houses ripe for conversion.

The Beach 1894 Two youngsters are digging for shrimps in the sands of the beach at Arnside, where the River Kent enters Morecambe Bay, while in the background three adults sit on the seawall.

Today, Biddenden cider can be enjoyed in most Kent pubs.

One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Kent, this village, with its main street and small shops running down to the large 12th-century Norman church on the left, was the site of a nunnery founded

This village was the hop picking 'capital' of Kent.

The village of Eynsford was once home to a well known man of Kent, the writer and historian Arthur Mee.

Ash is one of the places in Kent rumoured somewhere to conceal a four-feet-tall effigy of a man in solid gold, a treasure that had belonged to one of the early Saxon Kings, according to legend.

Surrounded by these majestic trees, and with the west tower of St Leonard's Church, one of the largest and finest in Kent, rising behind them, a summer game of cricket takes place on this spacious ground

To the west of the A229 is Kent's most famous Neolithic burial chamber.

In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.