- Lullingstone Castle
Lullingstone Castle is historic
mansion , set in an estate in the village ofLullingstone and thecivil parish ofEynsford in the English county ofKent . It is now home to theHart Dyke family .Mentioned in the
Domesday Book , the present house was started in1497 . Henry VIII and Queen Anne were regular visitors to the Manor House. Though its Tudor brick gatehouse is one of the oldest in England, what survives of the house is largely of the Queen Anne era.The surrounding park was previously a fenced deer park, with the castle serving as a hunting lodge. It contains some of the oldest
oak trees in Britain, wildflowers, a medieval church (St Botolph's, with the oldeststained glass window in England) and a walled garden, and used to containLullingstone Roman Villa . This walled garden - previously aHerb garden designed byEleanour Sinclair Rohde - has recently been converted into a "World Garden of Plants" by the Castle's current heir (and 20th generation of the Hart Dyke's), plant hunterTom Hart Dyke . That conversion was the subject of the BBC2 seriesSave Lullingstone Castle . It and the castle are open to the public.External links
* [http://www.lullingstonecastle.co.uk/ Lullingstone Castle]
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