From Wikipedia:
Knole Park is a 383.4-hectare (947-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Sevenoaks in Kent. About 43 acres of the park belongs to the National Trust, as does Knole House, which sits within it. The remaining parkland is privately owned by the Knole Estate. It is in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The park has acidic woodland, parkland, woods and ponds. It has the best ancient woodland invertebrates in the county, including the nationally rare beetle Platypus cylindrus and several nationally scarce species, and it also has a rich fungus flora.
The park is open to the public and has a herd of around 350 deer, both fallow deer and Sika deer, which are owned and managed by the Knole Estate.
The golf course of Knole Park Golf Club is located within Knole Park.
In popular culture
The park was the filming location for the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever” promotional music video. It was also used for location filming in the romantic drama film Wuthering Heights (2026). […]
From The Guardian, January 2018:
Jane Bown (1925-2014) worked for the Observer for 65 years, taking unforgettable images of hundreds of subjects. […] In January 1967 Jane was walking the dog with her young nephew in Knole Park near her Sevenoaks home. They came across a bizarre scene; “the Beatles gathered around a piano in the middle of the park. They were filming Magical Mystery Tour and nobody knew they were there. John was running around with his new toy, a cine camera, filming everything, including me. I had only two roles of [colour] film with me, but took what I could. The sole audience was a row of five little girls, Vita Sackville West’s granddaughters, peeping over the wall of her old home in the park. By this time the band had started dressing pretty oddly, especially John, decked out in flapping, colourful pyjama trouser things with a black coat and those glasses. He was bursting with energy, he was so inquiring, that’s what I remember most”. […]
The photographs were taken on a 35mm Pentax camera. There is no record of them appearing in the Observer colour magazine but copies were kept on file. Black and white copies were made in case they were needed in the future by the newspaper. […]
From The Guardian, January 2018
Related films
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1967 • For The Beatles • Directed by Peter Goldmann
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1967 • For The Beatles • Directed by Peter Goldmann
