Restaurants
The Small Holding
Restaurant and farm in an old inn at Kilndown near Cranbrook: lunch, dinner, real ales and wine.
Cinema and cafe-bar in the Grade II listed Victoria Hall on Rye Road, with a veranda and garden. Open daily from 9:30am.
Kino Hawkhurst is a cinema with a cafe-bar, a heated oak-frame veranda and a secret garden, set in Victoria Hall, a former Victorian lecture hall. The hall is Grade II listed and was built in 1875. Offers at the time of checking: Mondays £14.00 for all tickets (children £11.50), 2-for-1 on Tuesdays (full prices only), and a family ticket of £25.00 for one adult and one child. Offers exclude event cinema and some holiday dates.
The cinema, cafe-bar, terrace and toilets are all accessible by wheelchair via the main entrance. The cinema has 4 standard wheelchair spaces; larger electric wheelchairs and mobility scooters by prior arrangement. A disabled parking bay is in the small car park off the main Waitrose car park. There is no hearing loop.
Restaurants
Restaurant and farm in an old inn at Kilndown near Cranbrook: lunch, dinner, real ales and wine.
Pubs
Shepherd Neame pub and hotel in a Grade II listed Cranbrook building: twelve rooms, restaurant, bar and terrace.
Castles & History, Parks & Walks
National Trust garden created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, with estate walks, a tower and library and a restaurant. Christmas from 28 November.
Castles & History
Grade I smock mill of 1814 on The Hill, Cranbrook, run by volunteers. Free entry on summer open days from April; closed for the winter.
Museums & Galleries
Free local history museum on Carriers Road, Cranbrook, open Tuesday to Saturday afternoons from April to October. Closed for the winter.
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