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Sissinghurst
Sissinghurst (Kent)
Sissinghurst

Sissinghurst shown within Kent
OS grid reference TQ795373
District Tunbridge Wells
Shire county Kent
Region South East
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CRANBROOK
Postcode district TN17
Dialling code 01580
Police Kent
Fire Kent
Ambulance South East Coast
European Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Maidstone and The Weald
List of places: UK • England • Kent

Coordinates: 51°06′26″N 0°33′48″E / 51.1073, 0.5634

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The nearest railway station is at Staplehurst. Staplehurst railway station serves Staplehurst in Kent, England.

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Geography

Sissinghurst is situated with Cranbrook to the south, Goudhurst to the west, Tenterden to the east and Staplehurst to the north. Cranbrook is an old market town in the Tunbridge Wells borough of Kent in South East England. Goudhurst is a village in Kent on the Weald, about south of Maidstone. Tenterden is a small Town in the Ashford District of Kent, England. Staplehurst is a large village and civil parish situated south of Maidstone in Kent, England. It sits just back from the A229 which goes from Rochester to Hawkhurst. The A229 is a major Road running north-south through Kent. The road begins in the Medway town of Rochester at the foot of Star Hill Rochester is a town in Kent, England. It is located within the Unitary authority area of Medway and is at the lowest bridging point of the Hawkhurst is a village and Civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.

History

Sissinghurst's history is similar to that of nearby Cranbrook. Cranbrook is an old market town in the Tunbridge Wells borough of Kent in South East England. Iron Age working tools have been found and the village was for centuries a meeting and resting place for people travelling towards the south coast.

Sissinghurst Castle Gardens

See main article: Sissinghurst Castle Garden

Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. The garden at Sissinghurst Castle in the Weald of Kent, near Cranbrook, Goudhurst and Tenterden, is owned and maintained by the National Victoria Mary Sackville-West The Hon Lady Nicolson, CH ( March 9, 1892 &ndash June 2, 1962) best known as Vita Sackville-West Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG ( November 21 1886 &ndash May 1 1968) was an English Diplomat Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury group who found her greatest popularity in the weekly columns she contributed as gardening correspondent of The Observer, which incidentally – for she never touted it – made her own garden famous. The Bloomsbury Group was an English collectivity of loving friends and relatives who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Sissinghurst's garden is one of the best-loved in the whole of the United Kingdom, drawing visitors from all over the world. A garden is a planned space usually outdoors set aside for the display cultivation and enjoyment of Plants and other forms of Nature. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The garden itself is designed as a series of "rooms", each with a different character of colour and/or theme, divided by high clipped hedges and pink brick walls. A hedge is a line of closely spaced Shrubs and bushes planted and trained in such a way as to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area

The Church

Sissinghurst's religious activities are served by its Anglican church, Trinity Church (built in 1838), with the Rev Allan Norris who is also Rector of Frittenden. [2]

People

People of note who have lived in Sissinghurst include:

References

  1. ^ Paul and Mina Tully: Sissinghurst Exposed... a New Slant on an Old Village
  2. ^ Church of England, Diocese of Canterbury, Trinity Church, Sissinghurst

External links

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