Hadlow College’s history can be traced back over 100 years, having been formed from a merger of the Kent Farm Institute at Sittingbourne and the Kent Horticulture Institute at Swanley. Both Institutes boasted a long and successful tradition of training outstanding practitioners in the land-based sector, with the former being an important training centre during the Second World War and the latter boasting some notable alumni - renowned landscape architects and garden designers such as Dame Sylvia Crowe, Frances Perry and Brenda Colvin.