Hever railway station service is one train per hour to London Bridge via Oxted and one train per hour to Uckfield. Hever railway station Hever railway station is on the branch of the Oxted line in southern England and serves Hever in Kent. It is from . The station is managed by Southern. Hever Castle is about a walk from the station. The station was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on 1 October 1888. It passed onto the Southern Railway in 1923 and to British Railways in 1948. The signal box was built into the station building and remained
Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever (7 October 1919 – 12 August 2001) was an English philanthropist and member of the Astor family. Her philanthropic contributions included being chairman of the Sunshine Fund for Blind Children from 1947 to 1989, during which she raised over £14 million and she served as vice president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind from 1977 to her death in 2001. Lady Astor was born Lady Irene Violet Freesia Janet Augusta Haig on 7 October 1919 (in fact, her father was created Earl Haig when she was