Sissinghurst Castle
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Sissinghurst Castle Garden is a Grade I registered landscape encompassing 22.05 hectares in the Weald of Kent, created in the 1930s by poet Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson.
Created within the ruins of an Elizabethan manor house and Renaissance moat, Sissinghurst is widely celebrated as one of the definitive gardens of the 20th century. The layout was planned by Harold Nicolson as a series of classical formal garden rooms divided by yew hedges and brick walls, planted with romantic abandon by Vita Sackville-West.
Key highlights include the world-famous White Garden, the Rose Garden, the Cottage Garden, and the surviving four-storey Elizabethan Tower offering sweeping vistas across the Kentish High Weald.
Designated Grade I under NHLE 1000181 and managed by the National Trust since 1967, Sissinghurst connects organically with the historic estate architecture documented across Le Roi du Monde.
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