Beautiful English Countryside Fairytale Cottages With English Country Gardens

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I grew-up in a small cottage during my early childhood in Kent and my mother lives in quite a large cottage in Dorchester. There's a lake at the back of her garden.

(I've also visited a lot of National Trust Properties as a child in both Kent and Dorset with my relatives.)

How about you?

I have visited Pluckley before, do you know it? what part of Kent did you grow up?

[♥ Lily ♥]

I have visited Pluckley before, do you know it? what part of Kent did you grow up?

Sevenoaks. My father is an avid fan of cricket. (A retired elderly headmaster of a boys school (called 'Charles' who used to wear glasses perched on the end of his nose and would read large newspapers and always look so serious all the time,) used to frequently stay at our cottage for several nights and him and my dad would often play cricket together in our garden.)

He would also take us to watch cricket matches too... which I found very boring as a little girl, (the area is named after the seven oak trees around the cricket pitch.)

My primary school was Lady Boswell's (a Church of England school close to Knole House, where King Henry VIII once resided.) Lady Boswell lived in Knole House once and she left our school a lot of money funds in her will after she passed away, so my school was named in her honour and we had lots of school outings to visit Bodiam Castle and Pevensey Castle and the scene of the Battle of Hastings, etc, as kids.

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I loved my primary school though and attended music lessons with my schoolfriends after school. Also, I loved the beautiful trees in Kent a lot... and I loved picking bluebells and pinkbells and whitebell flowers on my way to and from school.

We had a small fish pond in our rear garden and my father grew strawberries there. We also had a nice lavender bush. I once picked a type of berry off a tree in our front garden and ate it, and my mother was concerned and told me that I shouldn't just eat wild berries off trees incase they're poisonous. I remember seeing a lot of poisonous foxgloves on my way to school. I used to like making daisy-chains in our garden. We also had some nice roses in our garden too and lots of butterflies and grasshoppers and ladybirds.

I know Pluckley very well too... not just because it's reputed as being the second most haunted village in England.... but I also grew-up in Kent. My sisters were both born there.

Me and my boyfriend stayed for the weekend once in a cottage hotel in Pluckley (it's where the Darling Buds of May was filmed.) It's so beautiful and atmospheric. We walked around there over the weekend... I didn't see any evidence of ghosts during my stay there, but I can definitately say that some strange things happened - which may've been caused by a mirage, or had some natural scientific explanation, or could've been a coincidence. Je ne sais pas.

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