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Pubs

Good news! There are some GREAT pubs nearby.

The Dovecote in Capel comes highly recommended by certain of our congregation as a proper English pub, with a warm welcome from Nick and Shelley Page and a range of proper English beer - and nice food too. No muzak. No one-armed bandits. Hooray! 
01892 835966.
Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays.

Feb 2009 - Awarded a special CAMRA achievement award for consistently high standards of beer and service: the pub has been included in every edition of the Good Beer Guide for the past 10 years.

The George and Dragon is a beautiful Kentish clapboard building, and offers Greene King beers and home made food. 01892 832521.


The Queen's Head in Five Oak Green is run by Paul and Allie and offers a range of lunches and bar snacks. 01892 832073.

A useful map of the local area can be downloaded here.

Restaurants

The Poacher has an interesting menu, and is just half a mile north of All Saints' Tudeley (walkable with care!), and gets plaudits from many locals and visitors. 01732 358934.

Turmeric Gold is an Indian restaurant and bar just 1/4 mile south of All Saints' towards Five Oak Green on the B2017. 01732 361772. Also highly recommended by those in the parish.

Afternoon tea

The very best option (according to locals) is to take the 15-minute drive to Penshurst to the Fir Tree House, where cakes, jams and scones are all freshly homemade by the charming proprietress. Check opening times carefully.
01892 870382.

There is a wonderful tearoom at Chiddingstone Castle.

A really nice thing to do is to visit Hadlow College's Broadview Gardens, and have tea in their tea rooms. Despite the name, the tea room is open all day for breakfast, coffee, lunch or tea, and you can wander in the gardens and look at the plants for sale for a very therapeutic half hour or so.

Shops

Five Oak Green Village Stores and Post Office is open 7 days a week and stocks a wide range of necessities, sold by friendly people. 01892 837286.

Barsleys Department Store in Paddock Wood has many local adherents.
 

Venues

The Goldsmid Hall is a superb Arts and Crafts hall which is available for hire; like the windows at All Saints' it was the creation of the D'Avigdor-Goldsmid family. Beautifully modernised and extended in recent years, it also holds the stained glass window made by Rolf Harris for his BBC TV programme on Chagall. Email the Goldsmid Hall here.

The Hoppers has stood for 400 years set among the hop fields of Kent, in the village of Five Oak Green near Tonbridge. Originally it was a row of farm cottages, but is now comfortably furnished to provide a bolt-hole for use by churches and charities operating in East London. It is frequently used for youth groups, community projects and church retreats.

Five Oak Green United Church and the Arnold Cooke Hall (next door to All Saints' Tudeley) are both available for hire.

Hire details for Five Oak Green United Church are here; details of the Arnold Cooke Hall are here.

Parish News

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