Local Attractions

Historical Sites, Museums and Gardens

Yesterdays World
A trip to Yesterday’s World offers visitors a unique insight into the past; cleverly created through a series of vividly recreated walk through displays. Experience the look, feel and taste of "how we lived then" at the turn of the century and beyond.

Bodiam Castle

Herstmonceux Castle
Herstmonceux is renowned for its magnificent moated castle, set in beautiful parkland and superb Elizabethan gardens. Built originally as a country home in the mid- 15th - century, Herstmonceux Castle embodies the history of Medieval England and the romance of Renaissance Europe.

Battle Abbey

Michelham Priory

Batemans

Pashley Manor Gardens
Pashley Manor is a quintessential English garden located on the Sussex and Kent border in the heart of South East England’s garden country. Pashley offers a sumptuous blend of romantic landscaping, imaginative plantings and fine old trees, fountains, springs and large ponds.

Greater Dixtor House & Gardens

Merriments Gardens
Created during the early 1990’s the beautiful gardens at Merriments have quickly developed into a stunningly beautiful 4 acres of densely planted borders where the plants grown in the nursery can be seen in a garden context with a truly remarkable depth of imagination.

 

Family Attractions

Drusillas
Where getting nose to nose with nature is all part of the most memorable fun family day out you can imagine.

Blue Reef Aquarium
During your visit you'll come face to face with everything from giant crabs and lobsters to seahorses and tropical sharks and you'll find get a chance to find out more about these creatures amazing lives in over 40 naturally recreated displays.

Petley Wood Equestrian Centre
Petley Wood Equestrian Centre is a friendly, family-run Equestrian Centre, located in the heart of the East Sussex countryside, yet only minutes away from the historic town of Battle.

The Observatory
Hands on science and discovery among the domes and telescopes of a world famous astronomical observatory

Bewl Water
Bewl Water is a truly outstanding venue for outdoor education and activity courses. Set in the Weald of Kent, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, it is the largest area of inland water in the South East of England and easily the most picturesque.

Herons Park
Herons Park, home of Lydd International Raceway, one of Europe's premier Karting tracks.

Bedgebury
Bedgebury National Pinetum and forest is the premier outdoor site in the Southeast of England. With nearly 10,000 trees and shrubs the Pinetum is the most complete collection of temperate conifers in the world, it is also an important site of ex situ conservation and a centre of excellence.

The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
Kent's mainline in miniature. First opened to traffic in July 1927 as the 'World's Smallest Public Railway' and now covering a distance of 13.5 miles from the picturesque Cinque Port of Hythe, near the channel tunnel, to the fishermans cottages and lighthouses at Dungeness.

The Kent & East Sussex Railway
The country's finest example of a rural light railway. The line gently wends its way from Tenterden - "The Jewel of The Weald" for ten and a half miles, through the unspoilt countryside of the Rother Valley, to terminate in the shadow of the magnificent National Trust castle at Bodiam.

 

Vineyards

Carr Taylor Vineyard
David & Linda Carr Taylor established the vineyard, in the beautiful 1066 countryside just north of Hastings, more than 30 years ago and quickly gained international recognition for their award winning English wines. In 1985 they were one of the first to pioneer commercial English sparkling wine for which their reputation is now firmly established winning many awards including a Gold medal in 1988 & 1999 in the Challenge International du Vin.

Sedlescombe Organic vineyard
England's oldest organic vineyard

 

Theatres

White Rock Theatre

De La Warr Pavilion

 

More Attractions

Hastings Lifeboat
Many rescues have taken place off the shore of Hastings. In 1830, two gold medals were awarded for gallantary. In 1857 a sailing boat and all her crew were lost off the coast of Hastings. This tragedy led to a fund being set up in order to raise enough to supply a local lifeboat, which when purchased was stored in a boathouse at Rock-A-Nore - not too far away from the present location.