Old Scotney Castle - Tonbridge Wells

 

Old Scotney Castle 

Date: September 2023  

Location: Tonbridge Wells

Abandoned or Public : Public  

Delmoished: No

Since we had NT passes, we decided to visit Scotney Castle. We were not particularly interested in the manor house, so we went directly to the old castle ruins. We spent about 20 minutes observing the fish in the pond before exploring the ruins. We spent a full hour exploring the ruins and learning about their history., As we were heading back up to the carpark, we stopped off at the park. However, we were only there for about 15 minutes before the heavens opened up and it started to rain heavily. It's always important to check the weather before going out. 

This charming castle, built in 1137, is now in ruins and dates back to medieval times.

Between 1835 and 1843, a new manor house was built at the top and became known as Scontney Castle.

In 2007, the site owned by National Trust was opened to the public.

St Thomas a becket church , Capel Kent

 St Thomas a Becket church 

 Date: June 

Location: Capel  

Public or Abandoned: public 

Demolished: No 

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This was a quick visit to this church, when we arrived they were setting up for a concert but the church was open so we went in and had a look around, the interesting thing about this church it still has all the original drawings on the walls and that something you don't really see, we didn't stay long due to the heat.

So it said that this church is grade 1 listed, it back dates to around the Norman era, it also said back in 1963 there was fire in the tower and the tower of the church was rebuilt,  the church was taken over in 1986 but CCT who open the church up to visitors.

Toad Rock - Tunbridge Wells

 Toad rock 

 Date: June 

Location: Tunbridge Wells 

Public or Abandoned: public 

Demolished: No 

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we stopped off at the rocks that are nicknamed "toad rock " me and my 2year old got out of the car and started to explore the rocks, the rocks were amazing to explore around with lots of different ways to go,  we spent a good  hour here exploring and looking around all the different rocks, there are lots of different rocks to explore 

No one really knows why these rocks are there, the rocks got it nickname from the pub that sits near Buy,  They are Sandstone apparently It rumored that the rocks could be old as 4,000/5,000 years old  

Turret of a Churchill tank - Tunbridge wells

 
Turret of a Churchill Tank 

 Date: June 

Location: Tunbridge Wells 

Public or Abandoned: public 

Demolished: No 

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we went over to TW for the day as we had planned other explores in and around the area, and I saw online about this turret of a tank,  so we park the car at the RSPB carpark and walked down to the torrent with our 2-year-old, anyone can do this walk as it suitable for all ages, without google maps though you would not know it there as it is hidden off the beaten path, Once you reach the turret there is an information bored telling you what it is, it's a very quick and small explore but same time it very interesting that it has been left there.  It does look like that the turret does get covered in water in the colder months 

So it said that this turret  was left in the woods back after the D landing in 1944, It also said it was left behind by Canadian troops, The turret is now located on RSPB nature reserve 

Bayham Old Abbey

 Bayham Old Abbey

Date: 26-08-2020 

location:   Tunbridge Wells

Current: English Heritage

As the site was reopening, we thought we would head over to Bayham Old Abbey since it was a long drive and we wanted to take a look at the site. The site is interesting. The site is owned by English Heritage.