A storybook castle with round towers and battlements, rising straight out of a wide moat. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dallingridge, a knight who had fought in the Hundred Years' War. The outer walls are almost complete, though the inside is a ruin.
Climb the spiral stairs to the top of the gatehouse for views over the Rother valley. In summer you can arrive by steam train on the Kent and East Sussex Railway from Tenterden.
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One of the best-preserved medieval manor houses in England, home of the Sidney family since 1552.
A medieval manor house surrounded by a moat, hidden in a wooded valley.
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