All too often Kent, the “garden of England” is thought of as the county to come and go through, with not too much stopping on the way. But it’s a very beautiful county with a huge amount of history, and this article is about a week spent there simply exploring. It goes through the days of the week, describing what was seen on a particular day, e.g. Tuesday was spent in Canterbury.

The last day, Friday, was spent at Eastwell, which we all know was connected with a certain Richard Plantagenet who may or may not have been a son of Richard III or one of the boys in the Tower. At least the author blames Shakespeare for the bad-mouthing Richard over the fate of those boys.


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  1. Great article! Five of us (college friends circa 19666 – ’69!) met up and stayed in Ramsgate. Went to many of the places mentioned and thoroughly enjoyed our stay (my first ever oysters!) Our Richard III Group also had a weekend in Cantebury some years ago and squeezed in Ightham Mote, Leeds Castle and Eastwell, as well as Canterbury itself. Eastwell took some finding but we met an old chap who said when he was a lad, he and his mates used to explore around and IN the table tomb of “Richard Plantagenet” and played with the bones inside!!

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  2. Children are horrible. Playing with the bones in the tomb? I bet they enjoyed themselves immensely!

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