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PQ Members in Kent: Anagram (Tonbridge), Senior Moments (Aylesford)


Famous People From Kent

 

Places of Interest

Leeds Castle, four miles south east of Maidstone, dates back to 1119, though a manor house stood on the same site from the 9th century. Built by Robert de Crevecoeur to replace the earlier Saxon manor of Esledes, the castle became a royal palace for King Edward I of England and his queen, Eleanor of Castile in 1278. Major improvements were made during his time, including the Barbican, made up of three parts, each with its own entrance, drawbridge, gateway, and portcullis. The medieval keep is called the "Gloriette" in honour of Queen Eleanor.

The White cliffs of Dover form part of the British coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The cliffs are part of the North Downs formation. The cliff face, which reaches up to 350 feet high, owes its striking façade to its composition of chalk accentuated by streaks of black flint. The cliffs spread east and west from the town of Dover an ancient and still important English port. The cliff face continues to erode at an average rate of one centimetre per year, although occasionally, most recently in 2001, large chunks of the edge, up to several metres at once, will fall into the channel with little warning.

Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit. First used as a dirt track motorcyle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently holds many British and international racing events. Originally used as a military training ground, the field belonging to Brands Hatch farm was first used as a circuit by a group of cyclists led by Ron Argent. Brands Hatch offers two layout configurations: the shorter 'Indy' layout is located entirely within a natural amphitheatre offering spectators views of almost all of the shorter configuration from wherever they watch and the longer Grand Prix layout.

Created in the 1930s by poet/novelist Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, Sissinghurst Gardens in the Weald of Kent are among the most famous in England. Strongly influenced by the gardens of Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens, Vita and Harold designed their garden as a series of "rooms", each with a different character, colour and theme; the walls being high clipped hedges interspersed with many pink brick walls. The whole of Sissinghurst, garden, farm and buildings, were taken over by the National Trust in 1967 and are now a popular tourist destination, drawing visitors from all over the world.

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