Chiddingstone
Castle was nearly derelict, when it was bought by Denys Bower in 1955.
Bower filled the Castle with a wide-ranging collection including English
furniture, Japanese lacquer and swords, Egyptian antiquities, and
Stuart and Jacobean relics. When Bower died, his collection was left
to the nation. Chiddingstone Castle is now owned by a charitable trust,
which opens it to the public, and the grounds and gardens are being
restored to how they would have looked in the late 1800s.
