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Often known as the 'garden of England' because Henry VIII's fruiterer planted the first apple and cherry trees here, Kent is renowned for its mild climate and fertile soils which aids and abets tree growth. For tree lovers - The Sidney Oak or Bear Oak at Penhurst Place- (one of the top 50 UK Jubilee Trees) This Oak was planted in 1554 to mark the christening of the poet and soldier Sir Philip Sydney who served under Queen Elizabeth I and was one of only three commoners who received a state funeral Other places of note if you are an avid tree hunter are - Bedgebury National Pinetum, Lady Oak Lane, Goudhurst - probably largest collection of temperate conifers in the world, Bedgebury Upper School, Groudhurst, Beech Court Challock Lees, Benenden School, Benenden, Boughton Place, Boughton Monchelsea, Bushy Ruff Wild Park Kearsney, Dover, Chilham Castle, Chilham, Cobham Hall School, Cobham, Collingwood Grange, Benenden, Dane John Gardens Canterbury, Doddington Place, Doddington, Sittingbourne, Fredville Oak, Fredville Park with its girth of 12metres, Godinton Park, Ashford, Great Comp, Platt, Borough Green, Hadlow College, Hadlow, Hall Place, Leigh, Tonbridge, Hever Castle which was the C13th home of Anne Boleyn, Howletts Zoo Park, Bekesbourne, Canterbury, Knole Park, Sevenoaks, Leeds Castle which was listed in the Domesday Book and has many impressive trees in its deer park, Littlehall Pinetum, Little Hall Wood, Loose church, Lullingstone Park, Swanley with 100 oak pallards and 50 hornbeams, beach, ash, and sweet chesnuts some of which are 800 years old, Mote Park, Maidstone, Riverhill House River Hill, Seven oaks, Rookery Wood, Penshurst, Scotney Castle - one of the most romantic moated places with trees, hop farm and heather thatched ice house, Torry Hill, Milstead, Ulcombe Church, Viceroys Wood Penshurst and the Imperial College at Wye.