Town Profile Picturesque Bredgar Courtesy of Ian Scammell
assistant. The Sun Inn and adjoining Old Barn Restaurant are housed in a 16th Century building with an open fire. The pub hosts a number of charity and musical events
throughout the year and dishes on the restaurant menu include roasted belly of pork, and butternut squash stuffed with mushroom risotto. The narrow gauge Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway offers picturesque rides through the countryside, an impressive model railway aimed at youngsters, an engine shed full of locomotives, carriages and other delights, a tearoom, picnic area and music from a Dutch Street Organ.
Borden a pretty village centred around St Peter and St
Paul’s Church and The Maypole Inn, which was built in 1727 and has log fires, real ale, a beer garden and comforting food such as homemade chicken and mushroom pie and spotted dick pudding. Just down the road is the Oad Street Centre, which is home to a tearoom and restaurant, a gift shop and the Arthouse Gallery, where artwork is exhibited and sculpture, pottery, glassware and other items sold.
Just a short
drive or train ride across The Swale from Sittingbourne is the Isle of Sheppey, where visitors can bird-watch at the RSPB’s Elmley Marshes reserve, try watersports with Minster Windsurf Academy or one of the island’s sailing clubs, relax on beaches at Minster and Leysdown and watch the sunset from historic Queenborough.
The Hawking Centre - Doddington
For an evening’s dining try modern European style cooking with locally sourced ingredients at the Red Lion, Milstead, contemporary and traditional Indian cuisine at Lateef in the town centre or classic English and French dishes at Lakes Restaurant within Hempstead House hotel and spa.
Stay at the newly revamped Best Western Plus Coniston The Maypole Inn - Courtesy of Ian Scammell
hotel, The Beaumont B&B or the Premier Inn at Bobbing, all a short taxi ride from the town centre.
16 Mid Kent Living
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