Brands Hatch Tourism Information

Brands Hatch is located in the county of Kent in southeast England. Because of its abundance of orchards and hop gardens, Kent is widely known as "The Garden of England".

A number of small historic towns are well worth a visit, and the county’s nature is perfect for a number of activities such as walking, cycling, golf, horse riding or sailing.

For centuries the great and the good have made Kent their home, leaving a rich heritage of grand houses and castles, more than anywhere else in England. There's imposing Dover Castle, with its Secret Wartime Tunnels from which the Dunkirk evacuation was masterminded during World War II. Romantic Leeds Castle was the home of six medieval queens and more recently, a very wealthy American heiress. Then there's 13th century Hever Castle, childhood home of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife.

View the world’s oldest seagoing vessel, the Bronze Age Boat, at Dover Museum, crafted a mere 3,550 years ago. Go underground in Canterbury Roman Museum to the level of the Roman town to browse the remains of a house, mosaics and reconstructions.

Dazzling colours, seductive scents, superb seasonal shows – Kent’s gardens are rightly world renowned. Drift with spring bluebells at Emmetts, ramble with summer roses at Sissinghurst, kindle dreams with autumn colour at resplendent Scotney Castle.

At Yalding Organic Gardens, fourteen delightful garden 'rooms' allow you to trace the history of English gardening from medieval times to the present. Follow in the footsteps of Jane Austen in the fourteen acres of grounds at Goodnestone Park. Deep breath and relax as you follow your nose around aromatic displays of 150-plus lavenders and 30 types of rosemary at Downderry Nursery, Hadlow.

Wander amid Victorian oast houses at The Hop Farm Country Park, Paddock Wood, and learn about Kent’s traditional hop growing industry. Discover more at the open-air Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree, whose outstanding collection of historic buildings leads you through changes in local ways of life.

Then step into the 21st century at one of Kent’s many galleries. The new Turner Contemporary being built in Margate will be a centre for visual arts, and is named after the artist JMW Turner, who described Margate as having ‘the loveliest skies in Europe’.