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!
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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 Streatfeild family until the end of
the 19th century.
Henry Streatfeild commissioned William Atkinson to rebuild the house in
Gothic style. However Streafeild died in 1829 and the design was not
completed. In 1835, Streatfeild’s son, also called Henry Streatfeild, engaged
an architect, Henry Kendal to carry out further works on the house and the
house was renamed Chiddingstone Castle.
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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 with naturally stocked Bream, wild Carp
and Perch have been held in trust for the nation by the Denys Eyre Bower Bequest.
