Chartwell House ( Kent ) home of Winston
My cousin stuart and I took advantage of hour freedom passes and national Trust membership to go to Chartwell House again , before doors close for the winter. As long as Chartwell House remains open , there are busses from Bromley and also from Tunbridge Wells.
We arrived at Chartwell to find the car parks overflowing , but strangely the Restauraunt was quiet apart from a private function in the farthest room . Seems most of the the people were going strait to the house and grounds rather than the Restauraunt.
We siezed the opportunity to get our Cream tea and scones there and then , before we considered the grounds again.
16 , 10 , 2011
Scones , Jam and genuine Rodda's cornish clotted cream. This begs the age old question , rather like what is better Cake or Pie. But in this case , which should go on the scone first , the clotted cream or the jam or vice versa.
A view looking down into the valley towards the ponds.
One of the spots that Sir Winston used to like to sit in , feeding his fish.
Walled rose garden at Chartwell
Mahonia ( berberis family ) The Autumn tones and extremes of shape and darkness.
A wider view of the valley at Chartwell
Chartwell house itself . The home of Sir Winston Churchill , Great britains greatest Prime minister.
Feat Stuart on left
Under Lime ( Tillia )
A kentish cottage complete with Oast houses on the lower parts of the valley at Chartwell , another house on the side of the hill. At the bottom of chartwell sits two Giant Redwoods and futher along a Swamp cypress with the knees on top of the roots. These knees are the way the tree gets air to it's roots when submerged in waterlogged conditions.
At the very bottom of the grounds at Chartwell sits a hollow Bronze type metal statue bench of Clemmy and Sir Winston.
