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1 View of Weald from the Tower (National Trust/Penny Tweedie)
2 1950s: Guernseys on the Plain
3 Flowering polyanthus amongst Kentish cobnuts
4 One of the maps included in a large-scale 1903 sale of the Cornwallis estate
5 James Stearns transporting faggots (Mary Stearns)
6 Plaque by Reynolds Stone to VSW under the Tower
7 2006: Chestnut coppice, oaks and young beeches in Birches Wood (Peter Dear)
8 September 2007: Remains of the bank which once carried Sissinghurst’s Park pale along the Biddenden road
9 Sir John Baker (c.1488–1558). A print of a painting which has now disappeared, last heard of in Norwich in 1820
10 1760s: Francis Grose, the back of medieval Sissinghurst
11 1760: Sissinghurst ‘Castle’ – so named for the first time, in an engraving by James Peak of a drawing made by one of the Militia officers
12 1820s: The entrance gateway as it appeared when Sissinghurst was rented by Cranbrook parish as the parish farm. Pen and wash drawing by T. D. W. Dearn
13 1828: The Tower and a thatched South Cottage beyond it (P. Andre)
14 1917: Vita with her parents, Ben and Nigel
15 1934: Harold and Vita in her work room in the Tower
16 1932: Sissinghurst from the north-east
17 1940s: Cattle show on the Plain
18 Oxen at Sissinghurst c.1900
19 1930: Harold in front of Sissinghurst on the day he first saw it
20 2008: Sissinghust (National Trust/Penny Tweedie)
21 2009: Adam Nicolson planting trees
22 Amy Covey with Sissinghurst produce (National Trust/Penny Tweedie)
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29 27 July 1986: Tom, Adam and Nigel Nicolson
55 1940s: The Stearns family at Bettenham (Mary Stearns)
87–90 April 2008: 14th-century roof bosses in Cranbrook church
92 April 2008: Oak sack hoist, trusses and rafters of the Elizabethan barn
98 Map by Peter Wilkinson of the early Weald around Sissinghurst, drawing on a map of droves in K. P. Witney, The Jutish Forest: A Study of the Weald of Kent 450–1380 AD, Athlone Press 1976 and place-name research in J. K. Wallenberg, The Place-Names of Kent, Uppsala, 1934
191 Guess-plan of Elizabethan Sissinghurst by Peter Wilkinson on the basis of a drawing by Peter Rumley, laid over a plan of the 20th-century garden
199 Map by Peter Wilkinson showing the relationship of park and mansion at Sissinghurst in the 1570s, on the basis of investigations and a plan by Nicola Bannister
244 Sheep at Bettenham (Mary Stearns)
269 1932: Harold, Nigel, Vita and Ben under the Tower
275 Plan of Sissinghurst, 1930s–90s, drawn by Peter Wilkinson
283 October 1959: Letter from Vita to Harold
292–3 The Farm at Sissinghurst: map by Peter Wilkinson on the basis of a drawing by Peter Dear, integrating the new ideas for the farm landscape