THE VILLAGE OF SISSINGHURST
(OR THITHINGHURTHT, as it was once known in the neighbouring village of **LITHP.)
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. There’s an automatic speed restriction warning sign at one end, and Uncle Terry with his hand-
Some say that, as a village, Sissinghurst has got the Lot, (an apparently incurable medical condition inherited from The Norman Times -
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