Knole
Britishnoun
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Famous for its all-white garden designed by Vita Sackville-West, and for inspiring “Orlando,” by Sackville-West’s lover Virginia Woolf, Knole also has a Reynolds Room of Georgian portraits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Knole Park Oak in Kent, believed to have inspired an epic poem in Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando, also made the list.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
An earlier headline of this article stated that three historic English estates, Highclere, Chatsworth and Knole, are a quick train ride from London.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2021
There is even a very early self-reflexive photograph, “Silber Repousse Mirror from Knole House,” 1853, by the British photographer Charles Thurston Thompson.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 24, 2017
One of the greatest show-places of England is Knole House, the seat of the Sackville-Wests, near Seven-Oaks.
From British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland by Thomas Dowler Murphy
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