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Aug 24, 2021 · The name Chart in the Old English sense of rough ground or “rough common overgrown with gorse, broom, bracken” occurs throughout the Weald and is common as a place name in Kent. The Campbell Colquhouns acquired more and more land, and, by the time Churchill bought the property in 1921, it had all become The Chartwell Estate.
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A place of calm with its duck-egg blue colour scheme and high barrel-vaulted ceiling, Lady Clementine Churchill spent many hours here, dealing with her correspondence and the household accounts at her writing desk. Don't miss:One of the last photographs taken of Sir Winston Churchill stands on the desk in Lady Churchill's bedroom, to be found next ...
A place to meet as a family and their guests, the drawing room is a light and airy room looking out over the garden. Churchill was fond of playing bezique in here and the card table beyond the sofas is still set up for a game. The inscribed book collection in the drawing room consists of 898 titles in some 920 volumes. They include inscriptions fro...
Used by both Churchill and his research assistants, many of the books in here were received as presents and many more bought to aid in his work. It also served as a waiting room for those who had travelled from London to visit the Churchills, including those who came in secret to bring Churchill top secret information, in the years leading up to th...
The organisational hub of Chartwell, the secretaries’ office, was opened to the public for the first time in 2020. Created using archive photographs and historic inventories of the secretaries' office, the room is dressed as it would have looked in the 1950s. Once a hive of activity, it's from this room that Churchill's dedicated staff would have f...
Chartwell, country house near Westerham, Kent, England, that from 1922 until shortly before his death in 1965 was the country home of British statesman Sir Winston Churchill. The house, the oldest walls of which date from Tudor times, was named for a nearby spring. Winston and Clementine Churchill were looking for what they called “a country ...
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A glimpse into Churchill family life. It was decided that the house would be displayed as it was in the 1930s, the era when Winston, Clementine and their children were all in residence. Much of the house remains as it was when it first opened for public viewing in 1966, though we have since been able to open Lady Churchill’s Sitting Room, the ...
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