Penshurst Place
Penshurst Place is a historic building near Penshurst, Kent, 32 miles southeast of London, England. It is the ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poets and courtiers, siblings Mary Sidney and Philip Sidney.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St John the Baptist, Penshurst and The Leicester Arms Hotel.
St John the Baptist, Penshurst
Church
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St John the Baptist Church at Penshurst in Kent is a Grade I listed Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Rochester in England. Those buried or commemorated here include Knights, Earls, Viscounts, a Viceroy of India, a Governor-General of Australia, a Private Secretary to two Kings, two Field Marshals and two winners of the Victoria Cross. St John the Baptist, Penshurst is situated 400 feet south of Penshurst Place.
The Leicester Arms Hotel
Pub
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Leicester Arms Hotel is a pub, which is situated 740 feet south of Penshurst Place.
Penshurst railway station
Railway station
Photo: Stacey Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penshurst railway station is on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line and is located approximately two miles north of Penshurst in Kent, in the village of Chiddingstone Causeway in England. It is 38 miles 3 chains measured from London Charing Cross via Redhill. Penshurst railway station is situated 1½ miles north of Penshurst Place.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chiddingstone Causeway and Chiddingstone Hoath.
Chiddingstone Causeway
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chiddingstone Causeway is a village 4 miles west of Tonbridge in Kent, England. It is in the civil parish of Chiddingstone and the local government district of Sevenoaks. Chiddingstone Causeway is situated 1½ miles north of Penshurst Place.
Chiddingstone Hoath
Hamlet
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chiddingstone Hoath is a hamlet in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. Notable buildings include Hoath House, and Stonewall Park, for some time home of the Meade-Waldo family. Chiddingstone Hoath is situated 2 miles southwest of Penshurst Place.
Speldhurst
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Speldhurst is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The parish is to the west of Tunbridge Wells: the village is 3 miles west of the town. Speldhurst is situated 2 miles southeast of Penshurst Place.
Penshurst Place
- Type: Manor estate
- Description: historic building near Tonbridge, Kent in England
- Categories: historic house museum, English country house, country house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Penshurst, Sevenoaks, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.17468° or 51° 10′ 29″ northLongitude
0.18348° or 0° 11′ 1″ eastElevation
128 feet (39 metres)Open location code
9F3255FM+V9OpenStreetMap ID
way 93614668OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=manorGeoNames ID
7302200Wikidata ID
Q7164746
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Penshurst Place” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Penshurst Place”
- Danish: “Penshurst Place”
- Dutch: “Penshurst Place”
- French: “Penshurst Place”
- German: “Penshurst Place”
- Italian: “Penshurst Place”
- Japanese: “ペンシャルスト・プレース”
- Japanese: “ペンズハースト・プレイス”
- Portuguese: “Penshurst Place”
- Scots: “Penshurst Place”
- Spanish: “Penshurst Place”
- Swedish: “Penshurst Place”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Penshurst Place”. Photo: Griffp, CC BY-SA 3.0.