Our first trip of the year – staying at Tanner Farm Park. We only stayed 2 nights but managed to visit 3 fascinating sites in the area………..
A National Trust site once owned by the author Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson.
Another National Trust property – originally built 400 years ago as an archbishop’s palace. This huge estate ended up in the hands of the Sackville family (Vita’s parents – even though she was the eldest child she could not inherit the house because she was a woman, so she left and bought Sissinghurst instead!). the building is packed with artwork from the likes of Reynolds, Gainsborough and Van Dyck and the location plays host to a Conservation Studio that takes care of artwork from across the entire National Trust portfolio.
An amazing location with lots of nautical history, ships and a submarine you can walk through. In addition, there is a huge collection of RLNI lifeboats and one of the few remaining traditional ropeworks still in operation – housed in building a quarter of a mile long.
