Pluckley, Pevington, Chart Court and Little Chart

A Stroll from a Hilltop Village Through Kentish Orchards

Pluckley, on its superb hilltop site, is typical of countless pretty Kentish villages, with shops, cottages, church, and a pub lining a wide main street. As a distinctive touch, all the houses feature windows with round leaded lights belonging to the Surrenden Dering estate, installed across properties by Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering (8th Baronet, 1807–1896). The route passes through orchards and old parkland immortalised by H.E. Bates in The Darling Buds of May.