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The gatehouse and the drawbridge, the moat with the whole south front in
it, the Yew Maze from above, the Loggia looking out over the lake, and the panelled rooms
inside. Every photograph here comes from the estate's own images or from the operators'
listings for the days Hever Castle Tours compares.
Hever Castle seen across the moat, with the gatehouse and the Tudor range behind itThe clipped topiary and the moat in front of Hever Castle on a bright afternoonThe bridge across the moat to Hever Castle's medieval gatehouseHever Castle across the water with the Tudor Village roofline behind itHever Castle seen from the topiary lawn, with clipped yew shapes in the foregroundHever Castle's chimneys and battlements rising above the garden hedgesHever Castle in winter, with bare trees along the walk up to the gatehouseBlossom on the trees beside the water, with Hever Castle behindThe Hever Castle estate from the air in autumn, the double moat and gardens laid out around itThe Yew Maze and the formal gardens at Hever Castle seen from aboveThe Loggia's colonnade looking out over the 38-acre lake at Hever CastleThe stone arches of the Loggia at the end of Hever Castle's Italian GardenClassical statuary framed by the colonnade in Hever Castle's Italian GardenA bed of lavender and a standard rose in the gardens at Hever CastlePink climbing roses trained over a clipped hedge in Hever Castle's gardensA carved stone lion set into a garden wall at Hever Castle, with red flowers around itIvy growing across the sandstone wall around a mullioned window at Hever CastleStained glass above a carved chest and an open book in one of Hever Castle's panelled roomsThe panelled Drawing Room at Hever Castle, with its plaster ceiling and long carpetA carved wooden door and its iron knocker at Hever CastleChartwell, Winston Churchill's family home in Kent, seen from the lawn below the houseHever Castle floodlit at dusk, its outline reflected in the moatThe bridge and gatehouse at Hever Castle lit up against a night skyThe hundred-year-old Yew Maze at Hever Castle seen from aboveHever Castle from the air, ringed by its double moat and the formal gardensHever Castle's stone range reflected in the still water of the moat, with roses along the bankVirginia creeper turning red across the front of Hever Castle's gatehouseThe walk across the bridge towards Hever Castle's ivy-covered gatehouseHever Castle behind the clipped topiary of the garden, with autumn colour on the wallsA panelled room inside Hever Castle, furnished under its moulded plaster ceiling
What you are looking at
Almost all of it sits inside one estate boundary in the village of Hever.
The castle page names the rooms in the order the route takes
them, the gardens page names the gardens, and
the map page shows how far apart they are on the ground.
Photography inside the castle is allowed for private use. The rooms are lit with LED
spotlights and chandeliers and a few are kept deliberately dim to protect what is in
them, so the moat and the gardens are where most people get their best frames.
One photograph here is not Hever at all: Chartwell, eight miles north, which two of
these days reach in the same afternoon.
