Anne Boleyn's childhood home, reimagined by William Waldorf Astor as a fairytale moated castle, stands in landscaped grounds with an Edwardian 'Tudor' village, home to this exceptional B&B.

If you're outward bound for France, this farmhouse B&B, just ten minutes from the port of Dover and Eurotunnel, is perfect for a stop-off – but you might not want to leave. 'This didn't feel like a hotel, it felt like a home,' writes one contented reader.

Old meets new in this revived 16th-century coaching inn, now a busy, cheerful pub in a historic Wealden village.

Just five minutes and a world away from Ashford International, Brad and Kristie Lomas's 17th-century manor house in an oasis garden is a fine country-house hotel and foodie destination.

In a leafy setting just a stroll from the town centre and the famous Pantiles, this pub has six contemporary bedrooms, a snug in a cave carved into the rock on which it stands, a popular bar, restaurant and beer garden, and seasonally inspired, locally sourced menus of pub classics, with more exotic dishes and sharing platters.

The sixth addition to the Pig collection, this Grade I listed Jacobean mansion and former rock venue close to Canterbury has the trademark shabby-chic interiors, with bedrooms in the main house, coach house and converted barn, hop-pickers' huts in a water meadow, and a prolific kitchen garden to supply the locally sourced menus.

On a remote corner of the Isle of Sheppey, this former inn on the Swale Estuary is a birdwatchers' paradise, with smart bedrooms and a waterside restaurant serving highly inventive dishes of locally farmed and foraged ingredients, with produce from the dynamic kitchen garden.

This chic and stylish small hotel, in a beautifully restored Regency building that once hosted the future Queen Victoria, has lovely public spaces for relaxing, drinking or dining, and an enviable clifftop position on a garden square above the sands and Royal Harbour.

Close to Canterbury, this family-friendly village gastropub has four stylish bedrooms, informal dining inside and out, and imaginative menus of locally sourced produce.