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Sissinghurst Castle

📍 Kent, England

4.6 ★★★★½ 4,500 reviews

About

Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is designated Grade I on Historic England's register of historic parks and gardens. It was bought by Sackville-West in 1930, and over the next thirty years, working with, and later succeeded by, a series of notable head gardeners, she and Nicolson transformed a farmstead of "squalor and slovenly disorder" into one of the world's most influential gardens. Following Sackville-West's death in 1962, the estate was donated to the National Trust. It was ranked 42nd on the list of the Trust's most-visited sites in the 2021–2022 season, with over 150,000 visitors.

A 16th-century Elizabethan mansion, now mainly ruined except for the iconic tower and some buildings. Famed worldwide for the garden created by writer Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson from the 1930s. The gardens are divided into 'rooms' with distinct themes. Managed by the National Trust.