Situated in the heart of the beautiful Kent Countryside ( don't ALL the Guidebooks
start off like that?), the village of Sissinghurst, depending upon your viewpoint,
stands, sprawls, straddles or in places hangs over, the A262 main road somewhere
between Lamberhurst and Ashford. For the benefit of the avid cartographer, in all
probability you will find it located somewhere along the middle crease on Page 15
of your average UK Road Atlas. ( hidden under a wretched staple and looking something
like "Sist" or "Inghurst" etc.) To further add to the problem, if you're out on the
road and you blink, you're very likely to miss it, although a strictly enforced
30m.p.h. speed limit is imposed throughout the entire length of the High Street,
just to make sure you don't. (Actually it's called "The Street", owing to the fact
that the local town planners in the early days had very little idea about which way
was UP - a legacy that perhaps still lives on today.)
Some say that, as a village, Sissinghurst has got the Lot, (an apparently incurable
medical condition inherited from Norman Times - yet another useless local advertising
rag!!), and others say they wouldn't be seen dead in the place. (A statement of the
obvious, since the nearest Funeral Director is two miles away in Cranbrook.). However,
any town, village or hamlet is what you make it, and we made Sissinghurst our home
since '82 (18 or 19 - take your pick!). So for the real lowdown on "Mylkhouse",
click the items under VILLAGE STUFF ........
