You can do a tea room walk around Firle in East Sussex if you want to. About a mile outside Firle there’s a tea room in the woods called the Beanstalk Tea Garden, no idea if it’s any good but the setting is incredible, planning to go as soon as we get a warmish day in spring. Then you can walk on to the Charleston Farmhouse, home of the Bloomsbury Group, where there’s a decent tea room, then you walk back to Firle and end up at Firle Place, which is the country pile where they film the Great British Bake Off The Professionals. The tea room is proper old school, chipped cups and Vicky sponges, don’t go expecting any fancy GBBO shit. House is interesting too if you’re into old stuff, they’ve got some proper fancy paintings. Firle village is nice as well, good pub/beer garden etc, it’s idyllic in summer.
