Sevenoaks located in the West Kent next to the Charing Cross is a beautiful commuter town which connects northe of england with the capital city by rail.
In the 13th century, in this place was only a large mansion known as a Knole House which soon had become a kick start for a village. In the very same century the landlord established a market which had make Sevenoaks another stop on the trade route spreding from London to the North. Growing Sevenoaks quicly become a prosperous town with thrifing industry.
It is worth to go back to the middle ages and remember that in 1432 Sir William Sennoke founded a Sevenoaks School which is now the oldes secular schoole in whole England.
Some time after Sir William’s good deeds Archbishop of Canterbury purchased Knole estate and build Knole House. This huge estate have 365 rooms, 53 staircases, 12 entraces and 7 courtyards. The numerbs are highly importatn because the symbolic numbers corespons with the number whci rule the year. 365 days in 53 weeks in 12 months and 7 days. Owing to this configuration Knole house is also know as a calendar house.
Most know landmarks of Sevenoaks are Knole Park which its enormous spaces is a house for a deer and many million trees. In the centre of the park is a estate of the Sackvilles who are the Earls of Dorset. They visit the estate from time to time but Knole Park is open for the visitors on the daily basis.
Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve is another place worth seeing because of the variety of spieces inhabitating this area. Amongst the most popular of them are such examples of amazing fauna like mallards, tufted ducks, greenshank and rare Little Ringed Plover which is know from its brave migrations to the far Africa
Beside those atractoniones, Sevenoaks can be proud of the Riverhill House which is a manor belonging to the Queen Anne. The property was orginally constucted in 1714 and before the Lady the most know botanist – Charles Darvin had lived there. When the Queen had bought the villa constructors decided to elarge it and after those refurbihments Riverhill House got almost as big as Knole House.
All in all, Sevenoaks is a picturesque city full of meddievalathmosphere. However it is a place for the lovers of nature which can find here many many more spiece of flora and fauna than in other Kent cities.
