Doddington PlaceGardens

Doddington Place Gardens occupies the grounds of a red-brick Victorian house built around 1870 for Sir John Croft, with formal terracing laid out in 1873 by Markham Nesfield. The house and garden have belonged to the Oldfield family for more than a century; the current owner, Richard Oldfield, is a former asset manager and Vice Lord Lieutenant of Kent. The garden includes a rock garden, a woodland garden with a folly known as the Wobbly Tower, and a sunken garden developed in the Edwardian period. The tearoom serves teas from the Kent and Sussex Tea and Coffee Company, coffee roasted for Macknade's, and home-made cakes supplied by Pippa White Catering of Boughton. It opens on Sundays, Wednesdays and bank holiday Mondays between Easter and the end of September, with picnics permitted in the park but not the garden itself.