The Hawkenbury lies 3 minutes’ drive from Staplehurst and offers bed and breakfast in a converted stable block. This Kentish inn has a bar and restaurant, and offers free on-site parking and Wi-Fi. Each room has private bathroom facilities with power shower, heated towel rail and complementary toiletries. There is a flat-screen TV, hairdryer, trouser press and tea and coffee facilities, and beds are dressed with Egyptian cotton linens. A full English breakfast is served, along with a continental buffet selection. Within a 15-minute drive of Leeds Castle, The Hawkenbury is around 35 minutes from the Eurostar terminal in Ashford and a similar distance from the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Kent’s county town Maidstone has plenty of shops, restaurants and a town center theater, and is less than 9 miles away.