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Vita Sackville-West's garden at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent is the most famous and influential garden of this last blossoming of romantic style, publicized by the gardener's own gardening column in The Observer.
The garden at Sissinghurst Castle in the Weald of Kent, near Cranbrook, Goudhurst and Tenterden, is owned and maintained by the National Trust.
Their plan is to use the land to grow ingredients for lunches in the Sissinghurst restaurant.
Sissinghurst is a small village in the county of Kent in England.
Much of the novel is set in Sissinghurst.
When not in London, Christopher Lee is either at his house in Sissinghurst or sailing his French sloop, Megalomania from the River Beaulieu in southern England.
The Rookery is well known for its old cedar trees and White Garden designed in the same style as that at Sissinghurst Castle.
It is thought that the mill was a smock mill, and that it was moved to Sissinghurst c. 1814.
He is noted for his books Sea Room ( about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides ); Power and Glory: the making of the King James Bible ; Men of Honour ( about Admiral Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar ); Earls of Paradise ( an exploration of Arcadianism in 16th and 17th century England ); The Smell of Summer Grass ( describing his struggles with a small Sussex farm ); and Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History ( describing his attachment to his family home and his plans to transform the landscape there ).

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* Sissinghurst Castle — An illustrated history by Nigel Nicolson F. S. A., 1964 ( with many reprints )
Originally called Milkhouse Street ( also referred to as Mylkehouse ), Sissinghurst changed its name in the 1850s, possibly to avoid association with the smuggling and cockfighting activities of the Hawkhurst Gang.
The National Trust owns an oast at Chartwell which has very rare octagonal cowls, one at ( Castle Farm, Sissinghurst ), converted to tea rooms and another at Batemans, Burwash which has been converted to a shop, with the cowl being replaced by a dovecot.
Between 2005 and 2009, in partnership with the National Trust, Nicolson led a project which transformed the surrounding the house and garden at Sissinghurst into a productive mixed farm, growing meat, fruit, cereals and vegetables for the National Trust restaurant.
Sackville-West had taken similar models for her own " cottage garden ", one of many " garden rooms " at Sissinghurst Castle — her idea of a cottage garden was a place where " the plants grow in a jumble, flowering shrubs mingled with Roses, herbaceous plants with bulbous subjects, climbers scrambling over hedges, seedlings coming up wherever they have chosen to sow themselves ".
The theme was in the air: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson's Sissinghurst Castle Garden was laid out as a sequence of such spaces, without, it seems, direct connection with the reclusive and shy Major Johnston.

Sissinghurst and Cranbrook
In the 1930s, he and his wife acquired and moved to Sissinghurst Castle, near Cranbrook in Kent, the county known as the garden of England.
* Benenden and Cranbrook, and Frittenden and Sissinghurst from Tunbridge Wells.

Sissinghurst and .
He was probably born at Sissinghurst in Kent, the grandson of Sir John Baker, the first Chancellor of the Exchequer.
For Sackville-West, Sissinghurst and its garden rooms came to be a poignant and romantic substitute for Knole, reputedly the largest house in Britain, which as the only child of Lionel, the 3rd Lord Sackville she would have inherited had she been a male, but which had passed to her cousin as the male heir.
By 1305, Sissinghurst was impressive enough for King Edward I to spend the night.
In 1490, Thomas Baker purchased Sissinghurst.
In 1573, Queen Elizabeth I spent three nights at Sissinghurst.
Sackville-West and Nicolson found Sissinghurst in 1930 after concern that their property Long Barn, near Sevenoaks, Kent, was close to development over which they had no control.
Although Sissinghurst was derelict, they purchased the ruins and the farm around it and began constructing the garden we know today.
Cothay was later described by one garden writer as the " Sissinghurst of the West Country.
Sissinghurst was first opened to the public in 1938.
The National Trust took over the whole of Sissinghurst, its garden, farm and buildings, in 1967.
In 2009 BBC Four broadcast an eight-part television documentary series called Sissinghurst.
Oast House in Tudeley, Kent, now in residential use Millar's Farm, Meopham Castle Farm oast, Sissinghurst Fake oast at Harrietsham.
She sold roses to the Queen Mother and the Churchills, and helped Vita Sackville-West design her White Garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent.

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Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.
The location of the latter now is determined for tax purposes at the time of registration, and it is now accepted practice to consider a motor vehicle as being situated where it is garaged.
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