Penshurst Place

Penshurst Place Italian Garden in Spring (c) Penshurst Place

The Great Hall at Penshurst Place, circa 1915

Penshurst Place is a historic biggin neist Tonbridge, Kent, 32 mile (51 km) sooth east o Lunnon, Ingland. It is the ancestral home o the Sidney family, an wis the birthplace o the great Elizabethan poet, courtier and sodger, Sir Philip Sidney. The oreeginal medieval hoose is ane o the maist complete surviving examples o 14t-century domestic architecture in Ingland. Pairt o the hoose an its gardens are open for public viewing. Many TV shows an films like Merlin and The Others are filmed at Penshurst.