We are still in the South East for this post, still back in May of this year, and I still have more houses, castles and gardens to share with you ... I don't think we've ever packed as many visits in during a one week period.
I think it was a case of the fact that the South East is just somewhere we have only ever visited the once so everything was new ... and I'm not sure I can see us going back down that way anytime soon so we just wanted to make sure we didn't miss anything.
This time we are at Scotney Castle ... described by the National Trust as a ...
"Romantic Picturesque garden with a 14th century moated castle and a Victorian country mansion - all in a beautiful wooded estate"
It sounded great and had came highly recommended by friends who had previously visited ... though they did admit to having forgotten as to quite how big and how hilly the site is 😧
There are three main things to visit ... the garden, the house and the old castle ... we decided to start with the gardens ...
The old castle was thought to have been built as a fortified house as a result of the French invasions back in 1377. By the 19th century the land owner deliberately ruined much of it to create the centrepiece of the landscape in which it sits ...
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