National Trust & English Heritage places in Kent

Winston Churchill's cherished family home with personal memorabilia and sweeping Weald views.

One of Kent's most picturesque villages with beautifully preserved Tudor houses.

Ancient Kent woodland with an impressive 18th-century neoclassical mausoleum.

Neolithic burial chamber on the North Downs dating from 4000 BC, one of the Medway Megaliths.

A hillside Edwardian shrub garden with rare trees, bluebells, and panoramic Weald views.

Second World War tunnels 23 metres inside the White Cliffs of Dover, toured by hard hat and head torch, with First World War sound mirrors and a gun emplacement.

A beautifully preserved medieval moated manor house spanning seven centuries of architectural history.

A vast 15th-century house with 365 rooms, priceless collections, and a medieval deer park.

A rare surviving medieval knight's dwelling dating from around 1290.

One of the largest Iron Age hillforts in south-east England, with Palaeolithic rock shelters.

A Greensand ridge viewpoint near Sevenoaks with sweeping views across the Weald.

Charles II red-brick house in Cobham, family home of the architect Sir Herbert Baker.

Tudor childhood home of General Wolfe in Westerham, with memorabilia from the capture of Quebec in 1759.

A romantic moated castle ruin in a wooded valley garden with a Victorian country house above.

Vita Sackville-West's iconic garden rooms, including the famous White Garden, set around an Elizabethan tower.

Ellen Terry's half-timbered home near Tenterden, filled with Victorian theatrical costumes and memorabilia.

Victorian lighthouse on the White Cliffs of Dover, pioneering site for electric light and Marconi's radio.

A tranquil moated garden around a former 13th-century Knights Hospitaller chapel in Kent.

Late 15th-century half-timbered yeoman's house in Kent with a charming cottage garden.

Kent's highest point with regenerated ancient woodland, a favourite retreat of NT co-founder Octavia Hill.

England's iconic chalk cliffs with clifftop walks, rare wildlife, views across to France and the Fan Bay Deep Shelter tunnels.

Henry VIII’s coastal artillery fortress with rounded bastions, dark passages and interactive displays.

A Channel fortress with Henry II's Great Tower, siege exhibitions, a Roman lighthouse and extensive defensive grounds.

The ruins of a medieval chapel incorporate the walls of a much earlier Roman mausoleum.

A medieval domestic chapel in a private garden, open only on advertised Heritage Open Days.

Two Neolithic burial monuments above the Medway Valley, including the standing chamber and the Countless Stones.

A 13th-century royal hospital building on Watling Street at Ospringe, now a small museum of Roman finds from a nearby cemetery and the story of the medieval foundation.

Gravesend's oldest building, a 1322 leper hospital later a chapel, pub and barracks, with its medieval roof and a local history collection.

Roman fort walls, a reconstructed invasion gateway and a museum beside the buried amphitheatre at Richborough.

A 113-foot Norman keep above the Medway, besieged by King John in 1215, with a 144-step climb to the top and picnic lawns in the bailey.

The hillside remains of the medieval waterworks that supplied St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury.

A thirteenth-century Hospitaller chapel at Swingfield, with exterior viewing and occasional interior open days.

A ruined Norman keep with wide views over the Weald and a link to Simon de Montfort.

The 13th-century stone hall of a Knights Templar manor in Strood, with traces of wall painting in its first-floor chamber, set in a leafy garden in an industrial estate and open by appointment.

Tudor coastal castle and the Lord Warden’s gardens, with woodland trails; interiors currently closed for conservation.