Historic sites

Knole

United Kingdom Kent Sevenoaks

Knole
Photo: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

One of the largest houses in England, more like a small town, built for an Archbishop of Canterbury and taken by Henry VIII. It has been home to the Sackville family since 1603 and holds a famous collection of royal Stuart furniture.


The deer park of around 1,000 acres is free to walk in, with herds of fallow and sika deer that wander right up to the house.

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