Sevenoaks is an attractive country town on route between London and Royal Tunbridge Wells where tradition states that Sevenoaks derived its name from a clump of seven oak trees, which once grew there. Long gone know, seven oaks have been replaced by seven trees taken from Knole Park in 1955 and ceremoniously planted on the outskirts of the town.

The Knole estate was built in1456 and is set in a deer park looking down onto the town and now a National Trust site has been home to the Sackville family since 1603, before which it belonged to Archbishop Bouchier who rebuilt it as a palace for the Archbishops of Canterbury.

Set in a pleasant wooded area, it is hard to imagine that this tranquille town, now a popular residential area with businessmen, was the site where in 1450 Kentish rebels under Jack Cade defeated an army led by Henry VI, yet amidst its hidden treasures and history, Sevenoaks retains its rural atmosphere, fitting for a town in Kent, the garden of England.