Eltham Palace and Gardens - Eltham Palace is one of the few important medieval royal palaces in England to survive with most of it intact. Initially a moated manor house with vast parkland, it was acquired by Edward II in 1305 who subsequently passed it on to Queen Isabella.
The Gardens
The sunken rose garden featuring early hybrid tea and hybrid musk varieties from the 1930s leads onto a series of garden rooms created by evergreen shrubs planted with winter flowering shrubs under planted with spring flowering bulbs and hellebores. Common lizards are resident on the boundary wall and grass snakes have been known to use the site.
