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witch manse 😀

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October 2, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Fantastic William Burges conference at Dover Maison Dieu yesterday highlighted Burges' links with Kent including the amazing Bailey tomb at Ightham
September 26, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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The last episode of our recent trip to Sussex and #Kent #Travel #Heritage @nationaltrust.org.uk thehistoryinterpreter.com/2026/09/25/s...
South-eastern Sojourn Part 6
Day 12 This morning, it is time for the trip I’ve been looking forward to the most. I’ve wanted to go to Ightham Mote for nearly sixty years, since I first read Anya Seton’s Green Darkness in which…
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September 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
nicolawriting.bsky.social
Kentish barn, eyerolling at yet another walker cooing at the oast house at its shoulder. Hop cones on the vines in the hedgerows at Ightham Mote Farm, & hoppers huts on the field edges. Hop-picking holiday country, somewhere hereabouts, that Grandad knew as a boy.
September 25, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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That's cool

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Ightham Mote, an incredible Medieval Manor house!
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September 21, 2026 at 5:38 PM
oldmanrambling.bsky.social
When I saw that you had gone all in on Hever, my heart sank because I thought that might do me but then I didn't want to seem to be jumping on your bandwagon. However, we are lucky to have so many options here. I could have tried Standen again or Ightham Mote.
September 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Today Old Soar Manor, Ightham Mote and Small Hythe
September 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
offa59.bsky.social
A nice day on The Greensand Way between Sevenoaks and Ightham Mote
August 26
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August 31, 2026 at 4:40 PM
allantadams.bsky.social
The Ightham Mote long gallery, later chapel, from outside. The building with a bell on top is a stair turret. The gallery was originally built with an open loggia, all the range in 1524 among those in the know.

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Timber framed buildings forming two sides of a courtyard. The building on the left houses a staircase and clock with a bell on the roof. The building in the centre, with four windows, is now a chapel with a store room on the lower floor. On the right the two gables provide a corridor and sitting room with an oriel window. A garden feature like a well occupies the centre of the cobbled courtyard.
August 23, 2026 at 4:51 PM
allantadams.bsky.social
When we surveyed Ightham we also had a run in with a groundsman. He wasn't happy about us treading on his flowerbed. It was the only place we could put a ladder to get our colleague out of the boat on the moat for our survey. The current almost swept him under the bridge towards the moat's drain.
August 21, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Ightham Mote, Kent. The view from the top of the gatehouse shows the 16th century long gallery & refronted 14th century chamber blocks.

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The view from the top of the Ightham Mote gatehouse tower. On the left is the 16th century long gallery, in the centre a passage connecting the gallery to the parlour on the right. A second parlour roof can be seen behind the passage which has the gable of the original chapel behind that.
August 21, 2026 at 1:13 PM
allantadams.bsky.social
View from the gatehouse across the courtyard of Ightham Mote. The hall and parlour were built at the heart of the medieval moated site in 1340. The hall was given a new window around the time the gatehouse was built .

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A medieval hall, (right) and timber framed parlour (left) seen across a cobbled courtyard from inside a gatehouse.
August 20, 2026 at 2:03 PM
allantadams.bsky.social
The gatehouse of Ightham Mote, Kent for #ADoorableThursday. A 16th century insertion into a 15th century lodging range. One of my earlier pencil studies.

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Pencil drawing of a three storey gatehouse. The small entrance doorway has an arched head and wooden door. Three light windows light the two upper floors. The parapet of the building is made of brick and the top of a staircase can be seen at the very top. Two smaller windows light a staircase from the first floor to the roof. The doorway is approached by a bridge which crosses a moat contained by stone walls to either side.
August 20, 2026 at 7:03 AM
theheadsoffice.bsky.social
14th August
#3goodthings
1. Good drive to Kent
2. Lovely visit to Ightham Mote
3. Indian meal for supper
Yours?
August 14, 2026 at 5:55 PM
oldmanrambling.bsky.social
I have spent all morning trying to get my brain, which incidentally is melting, around Sabine's latest #PalacesAndGardens theme of #PalacePuzzle. Co-host AnnaLois says we're just going to have to embrace collages today, so
Here I go. On with the Motely. Clue.
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Be kind. I don't have a clue when it comes to this kind of techie stuff but I discovered a free program on my MacBook and had a fiddle round with this using some of the many pictures i have taken at what became one of our favourite National Trust places in Kent - the mediaeval moated mansion called Ightham Mote. It took far too long and the end product is, at best, passable. I did not really enjoy. Sorry. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.
August 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
rickblackman.bsky.social
This lunchtime visited the wonderful National Trust property Ightham Mote near Sevenoaks in Kent. Fab building creaking with history. Nice lunch and took some free coffee grounds to put around acid loving plants and add to compost. Garden is parched like everywhere at the mo. Still worth a visit.
August 10, 2026 at 4:31 PM
laurette1.bsky.social
Sorry.😉
It’s a magical place.
It was visiting there a number of years ago that made us decide to join the National Trust.
I have an affinity to the area and Ightham particularly as I was born in Kent and my aunt left me this piece of marquetry which I love, it even has swans in it.
August 6, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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The bell tower and clock in Ightham Mote Medieval Manor House.
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The house was built in the 14C. This tower was built in 1798 and is situated in the inner courtyard.
August 6, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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Come and see us today at Ightham Mote in Kent as part of the #FestivalOfArchaeology! The Archaeology Room is open all week and there will also be displays in the Great Hall this weekend.
The medieval house at Ightham Mote, surrounded by water Medieval and later finds on display Victorian and 20th century artefacts on display A display table with historic photographs and artefacts from Oldbury hillfort in Kent in front of a fireplace at Ightham Mote
July 22, 2026 at 10:15 AM
indigojo.bsky.social
A set of photos I took at Ightham Mote near Sevenoaks in Kent last month.
Ightham Mote (June 2026) | Flickr
Ightham Mote is a mediaeval moated manor house near Sevenoaks, Kent. There used to be hundreds of such manor houses around England, but there are only a few left now and this is one of the best preserved; as a volunteer put it, it was acquired by many families who were wealthy enough to buy it but not wealthy enough to radically rebuild it, so its mediaeval features are still very much intact, at least externally. Since my last visit, a new visitor centre and Mediterranean-themed walled garden have been built.
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July 12, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Keith said “they were dedicating what, in his belief, was the most celebrated tomb, certainly in Britain, as a monument to the most distinguished man of the former generation”, one who because he “occupied no learned position had always a greater and much harder uphill fight than the professional”
Benjamin Harrison (from E.R. Harrison, 1928. 'Harrison of Ightham: a Book about Benjamin Harrison, of Ightham, Kent, made up principally of extracts from his notebooks and correspondence'. Oxford University Press.
July 10, 2026 at 7:01 AM
johnnythin.bsky.social
Today marks the centenary of the National Trust's acquisition of the Coldrum megalithic monument, as a memorial to grocer-archaeologist Benjamin Harrison (d. 1921). As the Kent & Sussex Courier reported, the monument “was dedicated to the public use” at an afternoon ceremony on Sat 10 July 1926 🧵
Cutting from the Kent & Sussex Courier, July 16 1926: "BENJAMIN HARRISON, OF IGHTHAM. MEMORIAL TABLET UNVEILED. COLDRUM CASTLE CONVEYED TO NATIONAL TRUST. Two memorials to the late Mr. Benjamin Harrison, of Ightham, were dedicated on Saturday, as the result of the sum of £250 subscribed to the Harrison Memorial Fund. The shop and house occupied for over half a century by the grocer-archaeologist no longer remain, but on the wall of the new residence erected there by Sir Edward Harrison (Mr. Harrison's son) is a tablet stating 'Benjamin Harrison lived here'." View of the Coldrum megalithic chamber View of the memorial plaque on a stone at Coldrum, that reads "COLDRUM STONE CIRCLE HAS BEEN VESTED IN THE NATIONAL TRUST AS A MEMORIAL TO BENJAMIN HARRISON 1837-1921 OF IGHTHAM" 10 JULY 1926"
July 10, 2026 at 7:01 AM
andyross1962.bsky.social
Ightham Mote for me
July 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Feed: "Kent Sports News"
By: Andrew Bruce on Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Sevenoaks teen leads Kent U18s to T20 finals day
Sixteen-year-old Leo Selvey-Clinton, of Ightham, has captained the Kent Under-18s to finals day of the National T20 competition and arrives there as the tournament's top run scorer. The Tonbridge School pupil, who has represented Kent since he was nine and turns out for club side Bexley, already has senior pedigree too, having struck 47 on…
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July 1, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Ightham Surprise Major 🔔
June 27, 2026 at 2:56 AM