The Deer Park at Knole is a Designated Site of Special Scientific Interest

Set in a 1,000 acre medieval deer park, designated A Site of Special Scientific Interest, Knole is a Tudor house that has been in the Sackville family since 1566, when Elizabeth I gave it to her cousin, Thomas Sackville. The writer Vita Sackville-West was born here and her friend Virginia Woolf was said to have based her novel Orlando on the history of the Sackvilles in this house. Don´t miss the amazing Jacobean staircase with its Sackville Leopards on the newel posts.
Highlight: A rare collection of Royal Stuart furniture and paintings by Gainsborough, Van Dyke and Reynolds