Penshurst Place
Historic medieval house in Kent, England
About
Penshurst Place is a historic building near Penshurst, Kent, 32 miles (51 km) southeast of London, England. It is the ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poets and courtiers, siblings Mary Sidney and Philip Sidney.
The original medieval house is one of the most complete surviving examples of 14th-century domestic architecture in England. Part of the house and its gardens are open for public viewing. Many TV shows and movies have been filmed at Penshurst.
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River Eden, Kent
River in Surrey and Kent, England
0.3 mi away
Swaylands
Private parkland estate upon the Kentish Weald
0.7 mi away
St John the Baptist, Penshurst
Church in England
330 ft away
Penshurst Park
Cricket ground in Kent
0.2 mi away
Poundsbridge Manor
Oak timber-framed house built in 1593
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