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How to visit Penshurst Place & Gardens, Kent

September 8, 2017 by Gretta Schifano 2 Comments

Penshurst Place and Gardens. Copyright Gretta Schifano

Penshurst Place & Gardens is a beautiful historic estate in England’s Weald of Kent, near Tunbridge Wells, and it’s a wonderful place for a day out, with or without children. Penshurst Place feels like a National Trust property, but it’s actually the current and ancestral home of the Sidney family. King Edward VI granted the […]

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Categories: Culture, Kent
Tags: gardens, historic houses

Penshurst Place and Gardens, Kent

March 24, 2014 by Gretta Schifano 27 Comments

Penshurst Place. Copyright Gretta Schifano

My eleven year-old son’s eyes widen as the woman offers him a tankard of beer to drink. He looks towards me. The woman says: ‘The young master is of age. Everyone from the age of five drinks beer. But if you don’t want to drink it why don’t you just smell it?’ She tilts the […]

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National Trust Standen for kids

April 19, 2012 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

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Standen is a beautiful Arts & Crafts National Trust house in West Sussex, and I went there last week with my sister and our children. I know the National Trust has been harping on about all the things kids should do before being swallowed up by screens, but I’ve never found Trust properties (of the […]

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Categories: Attractions, Elsewhere
Tags: children, days out, historic houses, kids, mums, National Trust, play, play areas, playgrounds, south-east England, Standen, stately homes, travel, UK travel, West Sussex

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