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	Viagens & Imagens: Castelos & Palácios: Penshurst Place.
		Viagens and Imagens: Castelos and Palácios: Penshurst Place.
		Nesta página estão fotos e informações sobre Penshurst Place, situado em Kent, Inglaterra.
		Penshurst não é um castelo, e sim uma casa de família, mas que casa!
	www.viagensimagens.com /cast_penshurst.htm (465 words)

	Penshurst Place - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penshurst Place is an historic building near Tonbridge in Kent, 32 miles (50 km) to the south east of London.
		The ancient village of Penshurst was within the manor of that name: the manor appears as Penecestre or Penchester, a name adopted by Stephen de Penecestre, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, who possessed the manor towards the end of the 13th century.
		Philip Sidney (1554–1586), Henry’s son, was born at Penshurst Place in 1554.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penshurst_Place (510 words)

	Penshurst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penshurst village is located some five miles south of Sevenoaks in Kent, England.
		The Leicester Arms, once part of the Penshurst Estate, was owned by Sir William Sidney, grandfather of poet and statesman Sir Philip Sidney.
		His other grandson, Viscount De L’isle was appointed Earl of Leicester in 1618 and it was shortly after this that The Leicester Arms, formerly known as The Porcupine, was renamed in his honour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penshurst (135 words)

	Penshurst Place Contents (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Penshurst Place near Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England has been the home of the Sidney family since 1552 when King Edward VI granted it to his tutor and steward Sir William Sidney (1482 - 1554).
		His honors, including Penshurst, were forfeit to the crown and remained crown property until it came into the hands of Sir William Sidney.
		Penshurst has often been described as the home of chivalry and romance having been the home of the poet Sir Philip Sidney.
	home.freeuk.net /sidsoft/house.html (754 words)

	Penshurst Place and Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Set in the peaceful landscape of the Weald of Kent, Penshurst Place is recognised as being one of the best examples of 14th century architecture in the country.
		The house was built of local sandstone in 1341 and, in 1552, Edward VI granted Penshurst Place to his steward and tutor, Sir William Sidney, grandfather of the famous Elizabethan poet, soldier and courtier, Sir Philip Sidney.
		Penshurst Place is also the home of a Toy Museum, where the world of the nursery is brought to life through an interesting collection of dolls, tin soldiers and many other toys that originally belonged to several generations of the Sidney children.
	www.travelpublishing.co.uk /HiddenPlacesofKent/WestKent/KEN100.htm (263 words)

	Penshurst Place Kent
		Penshurst Place is a magnificent medieval manor house.
		In 1552 Penshurst was given to Sir William Sidney by Edward VI and today the house is still the home of the Sidney family.
		Penshurst Place also has a famous deer park and in the grounds there is a Nature Trail and Adventure Playground.
	www.touruk.co.uk /houses/housekent_pen.htm (326 words)

	Penshurst Place -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Penshurst was occupied by (The first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413)) Henry IV's third son, John, Duke of Bedford the second hall, known as the Buckingham Building, was built.
		It was enlarged after 1552 when King Edward VI granted the house to Sir William Sidney (1482-1554), who had been a courtier to the King’s father, Henry VIII.
		Sir William’s son, Henry (1529-1586), married Lady Mary Dudley, whose family became implicated in the (Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)) Lady Jane Grey affair, although Henry himself escaped any such implications.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/penshurst_place.htm (462 words)

	Penshurst Place
		The first recorded owner of Penshurst Place was a thirteenth century royal servant named Stephen de Penchester.
		Henry took over ownership of Penshurst, and it was his son Edward the Sixth who gave the house to his friend and supporter Sir Henry Sidney in 1522.
		Penshurst Place is an excellent place for a family to visit.
	www.infobritain.co.uk /Penshurst_Place.htm (727 words)

	News - Easter Celebrations At Penshurst Place
		Penshurst Place & Gardens offers a day out with a difference over the Easter school holiday.
		Penshurst Place & Gardens is easily accessible from the M25 and only 30 miles from central London.
		For further information contact Penshurst Place on Tel: 01892-870307 or visit the website at: www.penshurstplace.com.
	www.parents.org.uk /news_easter-penshurst.htm (292 words)

	Penshurst Place & Gardens on AboutBritain.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Penshurst Place is one of England's finest historic houses set in the Weald of Kent's peaceful rural landscape.
		Penshurst has been the ancestral home of the Sidney family since 1552 and successive generations have shaped its development.
		Penshurst's most famous son, Sir Philip Sidney, the chivalrous soldier poet, was a symbol of loyalty and bravery in the Elizabethan era.
	www.aboutbritain.com /PenshurstPlace.htm (563 words)

	Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge
		Colloquium sponsored by CRASSH (University of Cambridge) in association with Penshurst Place and the Paul Mellon Fund.
		Penshurst Place was given by Edward VI to Sir William Sidney in 1552.
		Their accumulation of prestige was supported by early and extensive additions to the medieval house, and frequent renewal of the lavish and fashionable furnishings within.
	www.crassh.cam.ac.uk /events/2002-3/penshurst.html (202 words)

	Encyclopedia: Penshurst Place (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 14th century great hall at Penshurst Place showing the screens passage, from Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1915).
		Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 31,600 in 2001.
		Events Petrarch becomes famous Beginning of the Breton War of Succession over the control of the Duchy of Brittany Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expells her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Penshurst-Place (955 words)

	Penshurst Place ghost hunt : November 2002
		I arrived at Penshurst Place around 6pm on a misty and moist evening in November 2002.
		All the rooms were in the same complex, we did not go much further into Penshurst Place due to the security alarms and the fact that the D’Lisle’s lived on site and were asleep in one of the other wings.
		Mike too called orbs, and it resulted in a great laugh as Jan thought she had caught ectoplasm only to realise that it was the flash bouncing of white dust on his shoulder.
	freespace.virgin.net /martin.farncombe/ghost_archive/ghosthtm/penshurst2002.htm (2880 words)

	BBC - Kent Places - Your place - Penshurst
		Fact 2: The Great Hall at Penshurst Place was built in 1340, probably one of the finest remaining pieces of 14th century domestic architecture in England.
		This is mostly thanks to Penshurst Place, once owned by King Henry VIII, now the historic home of Lord De L'Isle.
		Within the vicinity there is much to see and do, with numerous events held at Penshurst Place and several excellent pubs within the parish.
	www.bbc.co.uk /kent/places/villages/penshurst/index.shtml (345 words)

	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 17th Century: Topic 1: Texts and Contexts
		Penshurst was the country house of Robert Sidney, Lord Lisle, his wife, Barbara Sidney, and their children.
		Penshurst was one of the great country houses in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
		The Marcus Gheeraerts portrait of Lady Sidney and six of her children hangs at Penshurst Place, in the collection of Viscount de L'Isle, VC, KG.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/english/nael/17century/topic_1/sidneys.htm (505 words)

	Penshurst Place and Gardens - History of the House - French
		Le château de Penshurst Place et ses jardins n'ont guère changés depuis plusieurs siècles.
		En 1519, Penshurst Place, propriété du 3ème duc de Buckingham, servi de cadre pour un banquet fastueux en l'honneur du roi Henry VIII.
		Les additions architecturales survenues à Penshurst Place pendant son existence vieille de 670 ans ont transformées le château en une imposante habitation seigneuriale avec au moins 8 styles différents.
	www.penshurstplace.com /history_house_french.html (564 words)

	Penshurst Place Information
		The Sidney oak, in the grounds at Penshurst, is said to have been planted on the christening of Sir Philip Sidney but it is, in fact, much older.
		He chose to use the Sidney family emblem which can be seen in many places at Penshurst and which is still in use by the government today.
		The Penshurst village pub the Leicester Arms, was once called the Porcupine and Sir Philip Sidney's funeral helm (on display at Penshurst Place) is surmounted by a porcupine now, sadly, missing most of it's quills.
	home.freeuk.net /sidsoft/pensinfo.html (1108 words)

	PENSHURST PLACE
		Penshurst Place is situated at Tunbridge Wells in Kent.
		Penshurst Place was first built towards the end of the first half of the 14th century and was by a prosperous bourgeois, Sir John Pulteney, though his descendants several centuries later included the Pulteney Earls of Bath and the Earls of Harborough and Crewe.
		Penshurst Place is open to the public and in 2003 celebrations take place for the 450th anniversary of the Sidney family at Penshurst Place.
	www.burkes-peerage.net /sites/common/sitepages/capenshurst.asp (481 words)

	The Castle Inn - Walk to Penshurst
		At Penshurst village, just to your right, you can get refreshments, and in case you don't already know the village, you should take a look at the beautiful Church, approached through the charming little Leicester Square.
		To return to Chiddingstone go back to the place where you joined the main road opposite Penshurst Place and then continue past for about a third of a mile uphill, then just after a house on the left, go up some steps to a stile.
		Continue beside a hedge on the your left, cross a farm track, leaving the Dutch barns on your left, and follow the path down to the river, where you turn right, to cross the Eden by a humpbacked footbridge.
	www.castleinn.co.uk /walkpen.html (512 words)

	Travel - Britain - Day Walks 2003 - Leigh to Tunbridge Wells
		Penshurst Place looking across the grounds of the house to its north.
		Penshurst Place in the village of Penshurst, Kent, near Tunbridge Wells.
		The village of Penshurst in Kent, with the tower of St John the Baptist Church and the tudor manor of Penshurst Place to its right.
	www.markhorrell.com /travel/britain/2003/ind_leigh.html (244 words)

	walks
		Cross stiles on both sides of the drive to the house and continue, keeping to the left of the cricket field.
		Pass between farm buildings and continue straight ahead, enjoying distant views across the Eden valley and emerging on to road opposite Penshurst Place.
		Enter Penshurst Place Estate over stile and take the right fork of the two paths ahead.
	www.penshurst-online.co.uk /Things_to_do_walks_2.htm (811 words)

	The Sidneys of Penshurst (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Penshurst Place - home of the Sidney family for 450 years.
		Within two years of Penshurst being given to the Sidney family both his father and childhood friend - now King Edward VI - were dead.
		His godfather, after whom he was named, was Philip II of Spain, husband of the queen Mary I. At the age of 10 Philip attended Shrewsbury school where he met Fulke Greville who was to become his lifelong friend.
	www.i-way.co.uk /~sid/thesidneys.html (1636 words)

	Poetry, Art And Music From The Star Inn, Alfriston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Penshurst Place is one of England's finest mediaeval houses with a history spanning six and a half centuries.
		Sir Philip Sidney was born at Penshurst in 1554; among his most celebrated works are his Defence of Poesie and sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella.
		Charleston was the country meeting place for the group of artists, writers and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury set, Vanessa Bell and Virginia and Leonard Woolf amongst them.
	www.heritagetouring.co.uk /i-tour/0004.htm (466 words)

	British history articles
		Bonnie Vernon, marketing manager for Penshurst Place said: “The current house was built in the 14th century on the site of an existing 13th century property.
		In 1519, Penshurst Place was the setting of a sumptuous banquet given by 3rd Duke of Buckingham in honour of Henry VIII.
		He continued architectural work at Penshurst Place and his son, Philip, 2nd Lord De L'Isle and Dudley carried on the sensitive repair and restoration of the house and gardens to its former glory.
	www.history.uk.com /articles/index.php?archive=38 (649 words)

	Chiddingstone Causeway Kent - (Penshurst Station ??) - an English Village (UK)
		The village is a relatively modern one which has sprung up around Penshurst station, which was built to provide rail access to Penshurst Place.
		Because of the population increases a church was built of corrugated iron, the congregations increased until a stone church was erected and dedicated in 1898.
		The church was built within the parish of Chiddingstone, hence the village name is derived from Chiddingstone and not Penshurst which is the name of the station which is located next to the church.
	www.villagenet.co.uk /sevenoaks-weald/villages/chiddingstonecauseway.php (295 words)

	Sir Robert Sidney.
		Sir Robert became head of the family, and owner of Penshurst Place.
		From 1589 until 1616, when Flushing was returned to the Dutch, he served as governor of the town, and enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the military, and in public service.
		He was immortalized as a patron of poets in Jonson's famous poem To Penshurst.
	www.luminarium.org /encyclopedia/robertsidney.htm (513 words)

	Walk 15 : Leigh to Tunbridge Wells (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It proceeds through the grounds of Penshurst Place, with fine views of the house, taking in a truly pastoral landscape of rivers, lakes, woods and rolling hills; and passes through the lovely village of Penshurst.
		The stately home of Penshurst Place tel 01892 870 307) is a perfectly preserved, unfortified manor house, which has been the home of the Sidney family since 1552, when Edward VI gave it to his old tutor, Sir William Sidney.
		On the south side of St John the Baptist Church, Penshurst, are timber-framed cottages, which form part of Leicester Square (named after a favourite of Elizabeth I) and include a post office house from 1850.
	www.walkingclub.org.uk /book_1/walk_15.shtml (803 words)

	ICG Penshurst Place '98 - ICanGarden.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Penshurst Place - house and home since the 14th century.
		The great hall with its arching chestnut roof and rare octagonal hearth has been described as one of the world's grandest rooms.
		Look at these Lupins...they seem to be telling us to look at their beauty...and the Sundial and Demi Lune are in one of the three ponds built in the 1800's.
	www.icangarden.com /pix/penhurst.cfm (117 words)

	Penshurst Place
		Penshurst village is in a valley near the Kent and Sussex
		Nearby is Penshurst Place, a large medieval manor house dating from 1341, one of England's finest Country Houses, it is open to the public daily throughout the year.
		There is one garage in Penshurst which used to house the village flsmith.
	www.edenbridgetown.com /places_of_interest/edenbridge/penshurst_place.shtml (224 words)

	Penshurst Place and Gardens, Gardens in Kent, Penshurst Place and Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although medieval in origin, Penshurst Place retains the warmth and character of a family home.
		The gardens are magnificent in their own right and in some respects share the heritage of the Place.
		Penshurst Station is about one and a half miles away.
	www.yourcounty.co.uk /freetime/archive/discover/penshurstplace.html (195 words)

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