Agatha Christie's Miss Marple was forever stumbling across bodies in the gentle village of St Mary Mead. The British television series The Midsomer Murders has managed to churn eleven series worth of murder and mayhem out of the sleepy country villages of a fictional county. And, in the 60's cult television classic The Avengers John Steed and Emma Peel need only drive down a country lane with a funny name into a village of thatched, half-timbered houses and in no time at all, all hell would break loose.
Ightham, a sleepy little Kentish town, is that kind of place. It has tiny wee lanes with funny names, half-timbered cottages straight out of central casting...and a heart of darkness.
A Great Day Out
Luckily, it also has several good pubs, an Iron Age fort Oldbury Hill and a fabulous moated manor, Ightham Mote, to visit nearby. And it is only about 30 miles from London or 40 minutes from London's Victoria Station by train - so a fine place to spend a day out in the country.
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