meanwhile, let’s Apparate back to southern England…here we have Penshurst Place in Tonbridge, Kent, 32 miles south east of London. This is the ancestral home of the Sidney family and was the birthplace of the Elizabethan poet, courtier, and soldier Sir Philip Sidney. This mediaeval house is a rare example of fourteenth century domestic architecture in its original state; AND the house and its gardens are open for public view. (jimjOwill on flickr)

