There are many quaint villages with stately homes, pubs and tea rooms dotted outside London and around the UK. Not many pubs will have a horse parked outside though! Today we head southeast into Kent, known as the garden of England. Chiddingstone is a tiny village near Edenbridge. There, you will find Chiddingstone Castle which dates from the early 19th century although there are remnants of earlier buildings from the early 16th century. It was the home of the Streatfeild family until the end of the 19th century. +44 7846 629 004 info@chilloutlondon.com

1. Chiddingstone Castle
There are many quaint villages with stately homes, pubs
and tea rooms dotted outside London and around the UK.
Not many pubs will have a horse parked outside though!
Today we head southeast into Kent, known as the garden
of England. Chiddingstone is a tiny village near
Edenbridge. There, you will find Chiddingstone Castle
which dates from the early 19th century although there
are remnants of earlier buildings from the early 16th
century. It was the home of the Streatfield family until
the end of the 19th century.

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Henry Streatfield commissioned William Atkinson to rebuild
the house in Gothic style. However, Streatfield died in 1829
and the design was not completed. In 1835, Streatfield’s son,
also called Henry Streatfield, engaged an architect, Henry
Kendal to carry out further works on the house and the house
was renamed Chiddingstone Castle.
In 1938 the Chiddingstone Castle was sold to Lord Astor in
1938, when it became host to members of the Canadian Forces
during the Second World War and then Long Dene School until
1954. Then in 1955, a former bank clerk and antiques dealer
called Denys Eyre Bower bought Chiddingstone Castle. Ever
since Bower died in 1977, the castle, grounds and fishing lake

6. with naturally stocked Bream, wild Carp and Perch have been
held in trust for the nation by the Denys Eyre Bower Bequest.
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