Groombridge Place
Groombrige Place is a 17th century moat- enclosed manor house in the village of Groombridge, a few miles southwest of Tunbridge Wells in Kent , England.
description
building
Groombridge Place is two-story and made of red brick . Several dormers adorn its hipped roof .
Gardens and parks
The park was first created in 1674 under Philip Packer. His friend, garden theorist John Evelyn, advised him on this project. The garden nestles against a gently sloping southern slope and is surrounded on three sides by a quarry stone wall from the 15th century. The medieval moat that surrounds the house forms the romantic backdrop . The gardens include the White Rose Garden with over 20 varieties, the Oriental Garden and the Drunk Garden with a collection of bushes cut into funny shapes. It is one of the few gardens from the 17th century that survived the later landscape park movement. Outside the wall there is also an orchard and vineyard as well as a garden with various water features.
history
The ancestors of its owners were closely linked to the history of England: they were involved in the signing of the Magna Carta and the Battle of Azincourt , and even in the beheading of King Charles I.
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset , Treasurer of England, bought Groombridge and built the first houses in the village in 1604. In 1618 Groombridge was sold to John Packer to pay off the gambling debts of the third Earl of Dorset. The house in its current form was then built in 1662 on the foundations of the previous house by Philip Packer.
film records
- Pride and Prejudice : In the 2005 film adaptationof Jane Austen 's novel ofthe same name , Groombridge Place served asthe Bennet family's Longbourn House .
- Draftsman's Contract : Peter Greenaway's 1982 film is set in the gardens of Groombridge Place.
literature
- Hudson's Historic Houses & Gardens . Norman Hudson & Company, Banbury 2006, p. 136, ISBN 1-904387-03-9 .
- Peter Sager : South of England. Dumont art guide . DuMont, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-3498-2 .
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 6 ″ N , 0 ° 11 ′ 26 ″ E