Rye & the Weald
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A selection of standout places across Rye & the Weald
Hastings Contemporary
Hastings Contemporary is an independent gallery of modern and contemporary art…
WorkshopEaton & Jones
Eaton & Jones is a family-run jeweller on the High Street in Tenterden, founded…
SnugThe Crown
The Crown is an independent freehouse on All Saints Street in Hastings Old…
CellarNoah's Goat
Noah's Goat is a wine shop and wine bar on George Street in Hastings Old Town,…
RestBull Farm Oast B&B
Bull Farm Oast is a bed and breakfast in a converted oast house on Hawkhurst…
CounterRye Old Books
Rye Old Books is a secondhand and antiquarian bookshop on Lion Street in Rye,…
Grounds
Geo's Coffee House
Herstmonceux, ENG
Founded in 2019, Geo's occupies The Woolpack on West End in Herstmonceux, pouring speciality coffee…
Peggotty's Tea Shoppe
Tenterden, ENG
Traditional tea room in an 18th-century building on Tenterden High Street, trading under this name…
Stamp Coffee Shop (Kin Coffee)
Staplehurst, ENG
Kin Coffee hand-roasts in micro batches in Kent and box-posts the results, with a coffee shop to…
Starsky & Hatch
St Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Starsky & Hatch occupies a kiosk on Bottle Alley, the concrete promenade beneath St Leonards…
Table
Ârtisserie
Tenterden, ENG
Ârtisserie occupies a shopfront on Tenterden High Street, where a pastry chef makes viennoiserie,…
Bottega Montalbano
Tenterden, ENG
Bottega Montalbano is an Italian cafe and gelato parlour just off Tenterden High Street, open from…
Cranbrook Farm Shop
Cranbrook, ENG
The Levetts have farmed the Kent Weald for over a hundred and fifty years, and Chris and Sheenagh…
Cranbrook Farm Shop & Nursery
Cranbrook, ENG
This family-run shop trades from Charity Farm on Swattenden Lane, on the edge of Cranbrook, having…
Grand Pera
Hastings, ENG
Grand Pera occupies 8-9 Harold Place in Hastings, open daily from 9.30am to 11.30pm. Chef Kadir and…
Landgate Bistro
Rye, ENG
Martin Peacock spent twenty-seven years as a university lecturer before taking on Landgate Bistro,…
St Clement's
St Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Nick Hales spent sixteen years cooking in London, running the kitchen at L'Odéon, working alongside…
Star and Eagle
Goudhurst, ENG
Lizzie Dimet and Scott Smith run this coaching inn on Goudhurst's High Street, in a building dating…
Stooge Coffee
Hastings, ENG
A speciality coffee shop on Trinity Street in the America Ground, Hastings, under ten minutes from…
Winchelsea Farm Kitchen
Winchelsea, ENG
Winchelsea Farm Kitchen occupies a farmhouse kitchen, conservatory and walled garden on Winchelsea…
Larder
Appleyards Butchers
St Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Appleyards has traded as a family-run butcher on Bexhill Road in St Leonards for more than three…
Botterells Fresh Fish
Rye Harbour, ENG
John Botterell returned to the sea in 1976, after a spell in the merchant navy, and set up a small…
Cranbrook Farm Shop
Cranbrook, ENG
The Levetts have farmed the Kent Weald for over a hundred and fifty years, and Chris and Sheenagh…
Cranbrook Farm Shop & Nursery
Cranbrook, ENG
This family-run shop trades from Charity Farm on Swattenden Lane, on the edge of Cranbrook, having…
Judges Bakery
Hastings, ENG
Judges has baked on Hastings High Street since 1826, which makes 2026 its two hundredth year — one…
Park Farm Butchers
Hawkhurst, ENG
Park Farm Butchers occupies a shop and delicatessen on Rye Road in Hawkhurst, attached to Park…
Penbuckles
St Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Richard and Ellie Shattock have run Penbuckles since 2018, building a deli of Sussex and Kent…
Rock-a-Nore Fisheries
Hastings, ENG
Albert and Lily Elliott founded the fishmongery on Rock-a-Nore Road more than fifty years ago, and…
Rye Deli
Rye, ENG
Dezi Dalton's deli has fed Rye for more than twenty years from Market Road, with head chef Tamzin…
Rye Harbour Stores
Rye Harbour, ENG
Rye Harbour Stores is the convenience shop serving the small settlement of Rye Harbour, a mile or…
Salts Farm Shop & Cafe
East Guldeford, ENG
Salts Farm Shop trades from the A259 just outside Rye, opposite the Camber turning, selling…
Will's Bakery & Café
Northiam, ENG
Will's Bakery & Café bakes bread, cakes and quiches on Northiam's Main Street, serving villagers…
Culture
Bexhill Museum
Bexhill-on-Sea, ENG
A traditional volunteer-run town museum in Bexhill-on-Sea, almost entirely self-funding. The…
Cranbrook Museum
Cranbrook, ENG
A town museum on Carriers Road, Cranbrook, run by Cranbrook Museum and Local History Society — the…
Electric Palace Cinema
Hastings, ENG
Electric Palace is a single-screen independent cinema on the High Street in Hastings Old Town,…
Great Dixter
Northiam, ENG
Edwin Lutyens built the house at Great Dixter in 1910 for Nathaniel Lloyd, joining a…
Hastings Arts Forum
St Leonards on Sea, ENG
The Gallery at Hastings Arts Forum stands on the seafront in St Leonards on Sea, showing work by…
Hastings Contemporary
Hastings, ENG
Hastings Contemporary is an independent gallery of modern and contemporary art on the fishing beach…
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Hastings, ENG
Hastings Borough Council's museum and gallery at John's Place on Bohemia Road, a building put up in…
Kino-Teatr
St Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
The Kinema Palace opened on Norman Road on 5 November 1913 — the town's first purpose-built cinema…
McCully and Crane
Rye, ENG
McCully & Crane deals in art and interiors in Rye. Stock is arranged as paintings — still life,…
Morgan Museum
Rolvenden, Cranbrook, ENG
The C.M. Booth Collection is built around Morgan three-wheelers, eleven of them normally on display…
Rye Art Gallery
Rye, ENG
Rye Art Gallery grew out of a bequest by the painter Mary Stormont, who established the trust in…
Rye Castle Museum
Rye, ENG
Two accredited museums a short walk apart in Rye, run by the Rye Museum Association, an independent…
Workshop
Cowshed Workshop
Tenterden, ENG
Cowshed Workshop runs from a converted farm building on the back lanes out of Tenterden, teaching…
Eaton & Jones
Tenterden, ENG
Eaton & Jones is a family-run jeweller on the High Street in Tenterden, founded in 1989 by John and…
Rye Pottery
Rye, ENG
Rye Pottery has worked from the same Wish Ward site since reopening after the war, run today by…
Samuel Peacock Studio
Battle, ENG
Samuel Peacock works from a studio shop on Battle High Street, tucked into Tills Yard behind the…
The Wonki Pot
Battle, ENG
Holly Dawes founded The Wonki Pot in 2022, shortly after finishing a master's degree in craft at…
Counter
Adams of Rye
Rye, ENG
Adams has printed and sold stationery on Rye High Street since 1854, and the Foster family has held…
Dark Circles
St Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Dark Circles is a record shop and coffee bar run by Adam and Kim inside Marine Court, the Art Deco…
High Banks Nursery
Hawkhurst, ENG
High Banks Nursery is a family-owned plant nursery at Gills Green on the edge of Hawkhurst, trading…
Records & Retro
Bexhill-on-Sea, ENG
Records & Retro trades from Sackville Road in Bexhill-on-Sea, buying and selling secondhand vinyl…
Rye Old Books
Rye, ENG
Rye Old Books is a secondhand and antiquarian bookshop on Lion Street in Rye, run for more than 25…
The Little Shop Winchelsea
Winchelsea, ENG
The Little Shop is the only general store in Winchelsea, one of England's smallest and oldest…
Tough Love St Leonards
St Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Anja Petitto left London in 2018 intending to open a record shop wherever she settled, and chose St…
Webbs of Tenterden
Tenterden, ENG
William Webb bought the hardware shop on Tenterden High Street in 1919 — it had opened two years…
Cellar
Beaucatcher Wines
Rye, ENG
Beaucatcher Wines is an independent retailer and importer in the town of Rye, East Sussex,…
Biddenden Vineyard
Biddenden, ENG
Kent's original vineyard, on Gribble Bridge Lane at Biddenden, making wine, cider and juice since…
Chapel Down Winery
Tenterden, ENG
Chapel Down's home lies in the Kent countryside close to the market town of Tenterden, open to…
Charles Palmer Winery
Winchelsea, ENG
Forty acres of south-facing vines above the Cinque Port of Winchelsea, one mile from the sea. The…
Eel & Bear
Hastings, ENG
Eel & Bear opened on Waldegrave Street in Hastings in 2018 as an independent, family-run bottle…
Harley's Tavern
Battle, ENG
An independent cocktail bar and bottle shop at the top of Battle High Street in East Sussex,…
Noah's Goat
Hastings, ENG
Noah's Goat is a wine shop and wine bar on George Street in Hastings Old Town, opened in November…
Oastbrook Estate Vineyard
Bodiam, ENG
America Brewer and Nick Brewer planted the first vines at Park Farm Oast in 2018, converting a…
Oxney Organic Estate
Beckley, Rye, ENG
Single-estate producer of English organic wine at Hobbs Lane, Beckley, near Rye, farming a Soil…
Sarah's Cellar
Battle, ENG
Sarah's Cellar is a wine shop in Tills Courtyard, off the High Street in Battle, run by Sarah.…
Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard
Cripps Corner, ENG
Sedlescombe Organic Vineyard sits on Hawkhurst Road at Cripps Corner, near Robertsbridge in East…
The First In Last Out
Hastings, ENG
The FILO began brewing in its back room in 1985 — Hastings' first brewpub — and has been in the…
Snug
Battle Brewery Bottle Shop & Tap Room
Battle, ENG
Battle Brewery pours its own cask ales and bottled beers from a taproom converted out of a former…
Brickmaker's Alehouse
Bexhill-on-Sea, ENG
Brickmaker's Alehouse was set up by CAMRA members Martin and Robin as Bexhill's first micropub, in…
Horse & Cart Inn
Peasmarsh, ENG
The Horse & Cart Inn is a Grade II listed village pub on School Lane in Peasmarsh, with oak beams…
Rye Waterworks
Rye, ENG
David Roder opened Rye's micropub on 4 May 2018 in the Grade II listed former waterworks of 1718 —…
Salehurst Halt
Salehurst, ENG
Salehurst Halt is a community-led pub in the hamlet of Salehurst, across the River Rother from…
The Crown
Hastings, ENG
The Crown is an independent freehouse on All Saints Street in Hastings Old Town, close to the…
The First In Last Out
Hastings, ENG
The FILO began brewing in its back room in 1985 — Hastings' first brewpub — and has been in the…
Woodcock Inn
Benenden, ENG
A village pub on Woodcock Lane in Benenden, registered and run as a single independent business…
Rest
Bull Farm Oast B&B
Cranbrook, ENG
Bull Farm Oast is a bed and breakfast in a converted oast house on Hawkhurst Road on the edge of…
Jeake's House
Rye, ENG
Jeake's House began as a wool store built in 1689 by merchant Samuel Jeake on Mermaid Street in…
Oastbrook Estate Vineyard
Bodiam, ENG
America Brewer and Nick Brewer planted the first vines at Park Farm Oast in 2018, converting a…
Park Farm Camping Bodiam
Bodiam, ENG
Park Farm Camping and Caravan is a family-owned campsite on 18 acres of farmland at Bodiam, with a…
Plum Camping at May Tree Orchard
Goudhurst, ENG
Tash runs Plum Camping on May Tree Orchard outside Goudhurst, a working plot of apple and plum…
Star and Eagle
Goudhurst, ENG
Lizzie Dimet and Scott Smith run this coaching inn on Goudhurst's High Street, in a building dating…
Strand House
Winchelsea, ENG
Strand House is a Grade II listed bed and breakfast below the medieval walls of Winchelsea, made up…
The Holt Bed and Breakfast
Benenden, ENG
A small bed and breakfast on New Pond Road in Benenden, offering a handful of guest rooms in a…
The Laindons
Hastings, ENG
Karen and Malcolm Twist gave up a top-end hair salon in south London to open The Laindons in 2017,…
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