Castles and Great Houses in the Garden of England
The great castles of Dover, Deal and Walmer were built to guard the invaders’ traditional gateway to England. Even earlier, the Romans came this way, and built a lighthouse on Dover’s eastern heights to mark their harbour below. St Augustine followed the same route when he landed in AD 597 to establish Canterbury as the ‘mother Church of England’, and pilgrims later travelled to Canterbury’s shrine of martyred Thomas Becket. Kent’s second cathedral city, Rochester, keeps alive its association with the writer Charles dickens, while nearby Chatham has turned its dockyard in to a commemoration of Britain’s maritime past.
Kent is also the Garden of England, where orchards dot the landscape, a hop farm displays its historic oasts and its Shire horses, and gardens such as Sissinghurst are among England’s finest. The county’s nearness to London has given it a wealth of country houses including Knole, Penshurst Place and Hever Castle, together with the famous Chartwell, which was home to Sir Winston Churchill for much of his life.
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