This weekend a friend and I drove out of the city and into Kent for a National Trust day - don't pretend you aren't jealous of our old lady lifestyles. Scotney Castle is an English country house and, given its home in Kent - the Garden of England, has some suitably spectacular gardens.
The site was originally that of an old moated medieval castle, complete with secret priest holes, which still stands in the gardens today. Apparently when the Hussey family took it over they thought it would make a pretty cool centre-piece for the garden rather than an idyllic home, but it was all just in a little too good a condition so they went ahead and gave it a brutal makeover as they felt looked more picturesque as a ruin... some people are mental.
What has Scotney Castle got for the book geek, though, you might be asking - well one of the National Trust's biggest collections which is made up of ceramics, furniture, and a whole library of rare books with its own secret bookshelf doorway. Pretty awesome.
Scotney Castle
Lamberhurst
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
TN3 8JN
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