Hever Castle

Hever Castle

Photograph by Keven Law. Some rights reserved. (view image details)

Hever Castle

Photograph by Tony Grant. Some rights reserved. (view image details)

Hever Castle from the South-west. Hever was Anne Boleyn's family home.

Photograph by Colin Smith . Some rights reserved. (view image details)

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HEVER CASTLE FACTS

Location
near Hever, Kent

History
There have been three main periods in the construction of this historic castle. The oldest part of the castle dates to 1270 and consisted of the gatehouse and a walled bailey. In the early 1500’s, the Bullen family bought the castle and added a Tudor dwelling within the walls and so it became the childhood home of its most famous inhabitant, Anne Boleyn. It later passed into the ownership of Henry’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. From 1557 onwards the Castle was owned by a number of families including the Waldegrave’s, the Humfreys’ and the Meade Waldo’s. Finally, in 1903, William Waldorf Astor invested time, money and imagination in restoring the Castle, building the ’Tudor Village’ and creating the gardens and lake

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