may have been used as a place to remonstrate overbearing local wives, a Druidical ritual site, or an Anglo-Saxon boundary marker. The village today Penshurst railway station is located in the village of Chiddingstone Causeway. It is on the line between Tonbridge and Redhill. There is a primary school, Chiddingstone Church of England School. There are several nature reserves in the area including: Sevenoaks Reserve and Jeffery Harrison Visitor Centre (Operated by Kent Wildlife Trust) Bough Beech Visitors Centre and Reserve (Operated by Kent Wildlife Trust) Chiddingstone Reserve (Operated by Kent Wildlife Trust) There is a village shop and accompanying cafe called The Tulip Tree, popular with cyclists at the weekend. Film location The village was used as a setting in the 1985 Merchant Ivory film A Room with a View, in the scene where Lucy and Cecil take a walk after their engagement party. The High Street is seen from the end nearest to the Castle Inn. Michael Winner used Chiddingstone in his production of The Wicked Lady. Terry Jones and the Monty Python team filmed here for Wind in the Willows - Mr Toad's Wild Ride. Elizabeth R, starring Glenda Jackson was largely made here, as was Gerald Scarfe's Life of Hogarth. References External links National Trust webpage History of Chiddingstone Village net article The Castle Inn Historic Kent article Roughwood's image gallery and historical notes Transcription of an article from the March 1894 edition of the Century Monthly Magazine describing the parish (with images) Villages in Kent Civil parishes in Kent National Trust properties in Kent Streatfeild family