The Hop Story Museum

The Hop Farm is based around the world’s largest oast village and this was once a very busy and lively farm producing hops.

After World War II it was very popular for Londoners to come to places like The Hop Farm to pick the hops.
Every year they would travel down here to work, renew friendships and also to have fun.

Relive this fascinating and recent history of hop picking with the story told in the superb roundels of our oast houses – bringing it back to life on the big screen.

The museum gives you an insight into the life of a hop farmer to the celebrations that accompanied the harvesting of the hops.

You’ll be transportsed back to the heady days of hop picking in the heart of the Kent countryside, where you can find everything you wanted to know about Kent’s hop heritage.