Hever Castle in the summer months and an annual patchwork and quilting exhibition in September. The castle has also become the venue for a triathlon. The castle offers three floors containing antique furniture, Anne Boleyn's prayer books, instruments of torture, and a large collection of Tudor paintings. There is also a museum of the Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry. The remains of the original country house timbers can still be seen within the stone walls of the fortification, while the gatehouse is the only original part of the castle. It has the oldest working original portcullis in England. The grounds of the castle
Barnard Castle (UK Parliament constituency) Auckland constituency. Other parts of the former constituency formed part of a new North West Durham seat. "Notes" Barnard Castle (UK Parliament constituency) Barnard Castle was a county constituency centred on the town of Barnard Castle in County Durham, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election. The constituency was located in the west of County Durham, in North East England. 1885-1918: To the north of the constituency (moving from west to east) were the