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The bedroom of Henry VIII at Hever Castle. Hever Castle (/ ˈ h iː v ər / HEE-vər) is located in the village of Hever, Kent, near Edenbridge, 30 miles (48 km) south-east of London, England. It began as a country house, built in the 13th century. From 1462 to 1539, it was the seat of the Boleyn (originally 'Bullen') family. [1]
This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history.
Hever village is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the River Eden , a tributary of the River Medway , east of Edenbridge . It is 5 miles (8 km) by 1-mile (1.6 km) in extent, and 3,062 acres (12.39 km 2 ) in area.
Liste des châteaux de Bretagne (List of Breton manor houses in the French Wikipedia) Luettelo Suomen kartanoista (List of Finnish manor houses in the Finnish Wikipedia) There is a short list of Norman manoirs in Pays de Caux. Lijst van kastelen in Nederland (From the Dutch Wikipedia, a comprehensive list of castles and manor houses in the ...
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The criteria adopted for inclusion in the list include such factors as: how much survives from the medieval period; how strongly fortified the building was; how castle-like the surviving building is; whether the building has been given the title of "castle"; how certain it is that a medieval castle stood on the site, or that the surviving ...
Baron Astor of Hever, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [2] It was created in 1956 for John Jacob Astor, a prominent newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician. He was the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor.