The home of the Sackville-Wests:
The house is now in the care of the National Trust; however, the Trust only owns the house and about 43 acres (170,000 m2) of the park. Considerably more than half the house is still home to the Sackville-Wests. Lord Sackville and his family still own the gardens and the rest of the surrounding estate. As a walled garden, Knole’s is very large, at 26 acres (30 including the ‘footprint’ of the house),[citation needed] and indeed is large enough to have the very unusual — and essentially mediaeval — feature of a smaller walled garden inside itself. It contains many other features from earlier ages which have been wiped away in most country-house gardens: like the house, the garden has not been assiduously kept up-to-date with changing fashions over the centuries. These include clair-voies, a patte d’oie and even some bosquet hedges.
Beautiful house and gardens but Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicholson were dreadful people
It is an impressive building!
All new terms to me although I can guess what the first two mean.
Very OK Yah James
Beautiful house!
Thanks Victoria
Well another plae I have not heard of before. Seems like there are many places in Kent to visit, thanks for showing us this one.
I think maybe you need a little road trip down there