Tables were of good height and clear space to get underneath. There are picnic style tables on a lawn, several inside and a few on the veranda. There is a ramp to a basic wooden bridge over a stream to access teapot Island see photo. The ice cream kiosk hatch is low and accessible. Menus were clear to read. Donate Now. This website uses cookies to provide better customer experience. Please read about the way we capture, manage and store your data.
Teapot Island 1 reviews 5. You would be tea-potty to miss this this! Overview Teapot Island is a small museum of wall to ceiling shelves of novelty shaped teapots - around Lovely tea room. Young lad named Max gave service second to none! Polite efficient. Friendly and full of chat. Great breakfast and friendly. Their afternoon tea Write a review. Road Directions A north of Paddock Wood; at roundabout right onto B, then right onto B to Yalding, over railway crossing, over lock gates, over traffic lights, turn right into car park.
What's Nearby. Eating Out. There are two day trips on the River Medway from Yalding. There is Tonbridge to Yalding…. Open on…. Teston comprises three meadows nestling beside the River Medway. This is an ideal…. It has changed a lot since then and we now boast a bistro style cafe, with a wide variety of different types of food on our menu and a big selection of ice creams for you to enjoy.
We are well known for our cream teas which boast scones, which are baked on the premises daily, real cornish clotted cream, our own homemade jam and not forgetting of course a pot of tea.
We are also fully licensed and stock a vast array of alcoholic beverages. The potter, Gary Seymour of Seymour Designs, designs and makes teapots and other items to sell which are on display outside his workshop on sunny days along with Gary who will take every chance to top up his tan. There's even a couple of tricks thrown in, intentionally we're sure, to keep pedants on their toes:. Our favourite teapot in the collection? It's a toss-up between the bath, complete with duck pictured above , purely for the Things-We-Never-Expected-To-See factor, or the Queen's head with a Borrower-sized Beefeater climbing in her hair to form a handle.
The beauty of Teapot Island is that, unlike pretty much any other museum we've ever been in, the exhibits are presented without context or comment, save shelf labels giving the briefest of information. The refreshing lack of overwhelming reading means that you can really focus on doing what you came here to do; ogle teapots. The only item with any further information is a metal teapot with a bullet hole in, accompanied by an account of the German bomb which exploded in a garden in Bexley in , causing the damage, written by Geoff Hurst who donated the teapot the Geoff Hurst?
It's not clear. Two celebrity teapots, signed by TV antiques experts David Dickinson and Eric Knowles respectively, are presented without such explanation. Aside from all the teapots, look out for the flood level markers, one located at the museum entrance and one halfway through. This area of Yalding is susceptible to flooding in autumn and winter, and in being surrounded by water, Teapot Island is particularly at risk.
The markers show the waist-level depths the water reached on Christmas Day , which resulted in then-Prime Minister David Cameron being heckled on a local visit. You could whizz around the whole museum in ten minutes, or if teapots really get your kettle whistling, you could pass hours examining each one in detail. For most people though, 30 minutes is probably sufficient time to spend in the museum, which is the size of an average bungalow.
In fact, it probably was someone's bungalow until either the teapots took over, or the flood risk became too great, forcing them to relocate to the mainland.
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