In which English county is Scotney Castle?
Scotney Castle Scotney Castle Scotney Castle is an English country house with formal gardens south-east of Lamberhurst in the valley of the River Bewl in Kent, England. It belongs to the National Trust. The gardens, which are a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a celebrated example of the Picturesque style, are open to the public. The central feature is the ruins of a medieval, moated manor house, Scotney Old Castle, which is on an island on a small lake. The lake is surrounded by sloping, wooded gardens with fine collections of rhododendrons, azaleas and kalmia for spring colour, summer wisteria and
Tom M. Scotney Tom M. Scotney Tom M. Scotney Ltd was a British timber and joinery and timber construction business in St. Ives, Huntingdonshire. Scotney's was greatly enlarged by wartime defence contracts which included prefabricated buildings for searchlight installations and buildings for other special purposes in other counties and hundreds of special wooden boats for the D-day landing in France. In the late 1940s Scotney, obliged to diversify, added heavy truck trailers and related activities including timber-framed coachbuilding for local motor dealers during the post-war steel shortages. After two takeovers Scotney's closed its doors in mid-1970. Scotney had their premises beside the London