Bewl Water, Tunbridge Wells

Name: Bewl Water
Address: Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom

#12 among attractions in Tunbridge Wells

Park, Relax in park

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Bewl Water is a reservoir in the valley of the River Bewl, straddling the boundary between Kent and East Sussex in England. It is about 2 miles south of Lamberhurst, Kent. The reservoir was part of a project to increase supplies of water in the area. It supplies Southern Water’s customers in the Medway towns, Thanet and Hastings. ()

Alternative names: Elevation: 233 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 51°4'9"N, 0°23'35"E

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Tunbridge Wells United Kingdom

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Bewl Water – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bateman's, Scotney Castle, Bedgebury National Pinetum, Dunorlan Park.

5.5 miS
Historical place, History museum, Museum
Bateman's, Burwash
141 min walk • Nestled in the heart of the East Sussex countryside, Bateman's is a charming 17th-century house that once served as the home of the famous writer Rudyard Kipling. Located in the quaint village of Burwash, the Jacobean building is constructed from the local sandstone...
1.8 miN
Forts and castles, History museum, Museum
Scotney Castle, Tunbridge Wells
46 min walk • Nestled in the serene countryside of Tunbridge Wells, Scotney Castle presents a picturesque vision of England's storied past. This quintessential castle, surrounded by a moat and set within a beautifully landscaped estate, dates back to the 14th century.
2.6 miE
Park
Bedgebury National Pinetum
67 min walk • Bedgebury National Pinetum at Bedgebury, Kent, in the United Kingdom, is a recreational and conservational arboretum managed by Forestry England that was established as the National Conifer Collection in 1925 and is now recognised as the most complete collection of conifers on one site anywhere in the world.
6.4 miNW
Park
Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells
163 min walk • Dunorlan Park is a park and grounds in Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK. Totalling approximately 78 acres and containing a 6-acre lake, the grounds were landscaped by Robert Marnock for Henry Reed, the merchant and philanthropist who owned the estate and the now-demolished house that once overlooked it.
6 miNW
Church
St Anselm's Church, Pembury
154 min walk • St Anselm's Church is a Roman Catholic church which is part of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Pembury, Kent, England.
2.9 miNW
Monastery, Ruins
Bayham Old Abbey
75 min walk • Bayham Old Abbey is an English Heritage property, located near Lamberhurst, Kent, England. Founded c. 1207 through a combination of the failing Premonstratensian monasteries of Otham and Brockley, Bayham functioned as an abbey until its dissolution in the 16th century.
2.7 miNE
Museum
Finchcocks
70 min walk • Finchcocks is an early Georgian manor house in Goudhurst, Kent. For 45 years it housed a large, visitor-friendly museum of historical keyboard instruments, displaying a collection of harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos, square pianos, organs and other musical instruments.
3.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Bedgebury Forest
83 min walk • Bedgebury Forest is a 10.5 square kilometres forest surrounding Bedgebury National Pinetum, near Flimwell in Kent. In contrast to the National Pinetum, which contains exclusively coniferous trees, the forest contains both deciduous and coniferous species.
2 miNE
Forest
Combwell Wood, High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
52 min walk • Combwell Wood is a 110.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Tunbridge Wells in Kent. The wood is part of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is divided into 36 sections owned by different people.
2.7 miW
Gothic Revival architecture
Wadhurst Castle, Wadhurst
69 min walk • Wadhurst Castle is a 19th-century castellated mansion just to the west of the town of Wadhurst, East Sussex, England, in an elevated position overlooking the countryside to the south. It is a grade II listed building.
4.8 miS
Forest
Weald, Burwash
122 min walk • The Weald is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. It crosses the counties of Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent.