Kent, the "Garden of England", is
a county of alluring castles and gardens, historic sites and
seaside towns. The county town of Canterbury is the site of one
of the great English cathedrals, Sissinghurst Gardens is in the
heart of the Weald, while other scattered attractions include
Chartwell, Leeds Castle, oyster-famous Whitstable, the channel
ports and the historic Cinque Ports, the eerie reclaimed marshes
at Romney, the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, the timber-framed
village of Penshurst and Lullingstone Roman Villa. The seaside
towns of Whitstable and Herne Bay are popular north coast resorts.
Further east are the Isle of Thanet resorts of Margate, Broadstairs
and Ramsgate, where in 1751, a resident of Margate invented the
bathing machine and heralded the birth of sea bathing as a national
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