Tenterden High Street is the town's pleasure ground: unusually broad, lined with old brick and weatherboard buildings, and still full enough of independent shops to reward a slow wander. It has the calm, well-kept feel people imagine when they picture a Kent market town.
The best way to use it is simply to walk from the church end toward the railway station, stopping for coffee, antiques, or a pint as the mood takes you. It is not spectacular, but it is exactly the setting that makes the railway and vineyard visits feel rooted in a real town.