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Sissinghurst Castle
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(22km/14m S of Maidstone) Only a single low range of buildings and a tall central tower survive from the great Tudor house which once stood here, but from the sunken moat and the surrounding jumble of old walls Vita *Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson were able to create, from 1930, England's most influential garden of the 20C. He was the architect of the overall layout, she the gardener who planted it. Informality within a formal structure was their secret, developing a theme pioneered by Gertrude *Jekyll and adopted also in the succession of garden 'rooms' at *Hidcote. Among the best known of the strongly differentiated areas at Sissinghurst are the Cottage Garden, the Moat Walk, and the most celebrated of all, the White Garden.
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