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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]
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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.
Hever railway station is on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted line in southern England and serves Hever in Kent. It is 27 miles 27 chains (27.34 miles, 44.00 km) from London Bridge. The station is managed by Southern. Hever Castle is about a 1 mile (1.6 km) walk from the station.
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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.
On 21 January 1956, he was created Baron Astor of Hever, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, [10] taking his seat in the House of Lords on 21 March. [11] He remained chairman of The Times until 1959 when his son Gavin took over, seven years before it was sold to Canadian newspaper tycoon, Roy Thomson .
In 1903, he acquired the Hever Castle Estate near Edenbridge, Kent, about 30 miles south of London. The estate of over 3,500 acres had at its centre a castle built in 1270 where Anne Boleyn lived as a child. Astor invested a great deal of time and money in restoring the castle, building what is known as the "Tudor Village", and creating a lake ...