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The Restoration Directorate has been actively engaged in the field of restoration of our country s architectural heritage over the past year. Through a wide range of restoration and rehabilitation
Hever Castle viewed from the grounds during summer.
We know we shouldn’t have favourites when it comes to something as let’s be honest cool as castles, but we do have a soft spot for Hever Castle. It may not be as sprawling as the captivating Leeds Castle, or have the smouldering menace and wartime credentials of its coastal cousin, Dover, but what it does have is history, majesty and beauty.
Hever Castle is the epicentre of Tudor history outside London, a home counties Hampton Court, if you will. It boasts the tagline ‘childhood home of Anne Boleyn’, and Henry VIII visited many times. It was later owned by his fourth, brief wife, Anne of Cleves for the final 17 years of her life, her residence at Hever outliving their six-month marriage many times over.