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We stop in the
small market town of Edenbridge for our
morning coffee break, before moving on to Chartwell, home of
Winston Churchill around noon. Prime Minister during WW2 and
now voted the BBC’s ‘Greatest Briton’, Sir Winston bought
Chartwell for its magnificent views over the Weald of Kent to
Sussex. This was his home and the place where he drew
inspiration from 1924 until the end of his life.
The rooms and
gardens remain much as they were when he
lived there, with pictures, books, maps and personal mementoes
strongly evoking the career and wide-ranging issues of this
great statesman. The terraced hillside gardens reflect the
importance to him of landscape and nature, and they include
the lakes he created, the water gardens where he fed his fish,
lady Churchill’s Rose Garden
and the Golden Rose Avenue, a Golden Wedding
Anniversary gift from their children which runs down the centre of the
productive kitchen garden. Many of Sir Winston’s paintings can be
seen in
the garden studio, where talks are given most days about ‘Painting as a
Pastime’.
Timings: Leave local area
around 8am and return around 7.30pm.
Price includes travel & entry to Chartwell House and Gardens.
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