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    TRAVELLERS’ REST

    Apr 29, 2021 3 minutes
    Words and styling Karen Darlow
    Styling assistant Amelia Smith
    Photographs Penny Wincer

    ong before the dawn of the railways, in the days of horse-drawn carriages and stagecoaches, many a weary traveller will have broken their journey in what is now Wendy and John Bunyan’s home. The couple’s house is a former coaching inn, a popular resting point on a major highway between Hastings and Chatham. The house is set back from the old Roman road and was one of many such inns along the route when it was built in the 16th century.

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