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A long village with many old Kentish white painted weather-board houses and in Edward III’s time weaving was the industry until the 16th century.
Sissinghurst Castle is now a manor house but dates from the late 13th century with later 16th century additions and has been used as a prison for French seamen during the Seven Years War a workhouse farm buildings and rescued from further ruination in 1930 by Sir Harold Nicholson and his wife, the writer Victoria Sackville-West
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- Landmark