Leeds Castle stands on islands in a lake formed by the River Len near the village of Leeds in Kent, England, about seven miles southeast of Maidstone, and takes its name from that village rather than from the city of Leeds in West Yorkshire. A wooden Saxon stronghold occupied the site from 857, and Robert de Crevecoeur rebuilt it in stone as a Norman fortress in 1119; the castle standing today dates mostly from an early nineteenth-century remodeling completed in 1823 that overlaid the surviving medieval and Tudor fabric with Tudor-style features. Its last private owner, Olive, Lady Baillie, left it in trust in 1974, and the Leeds Castle Foundation has owned and opened it to the public since 1976; it was listed Grade I in 1952 and drew over 468,000 visitors in 2025. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Leeds Castle, Medieval and Tudor section
In 1119, Robert de Crevecoeur rebuilt it in stone as a Norman stronghold and Leeds Castle descended through the de Crevecoeur family until the 1260s.
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Leeds Castle is a castle in Kent, England, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Maidstone.
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Leeds Castle is a castle in Kent, England, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Maidstone. It is built on islands in a lake formed by the River Len to the east of the village of Leeds and is a historic Grade I listed estate.
A castle has existed on the site since 857. In the 13th century, it came into the hands of King Edward I, for whom it became a favourite residence; in the 16th century, Henry VIII use
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Sale of the family estates in Virginia released a large sum of money that allowed extensive repair and the remodelling of the castle in a Tudor style, completed in 1823, that resulted in the appearance today.
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Wikidata item Q746876, property P571: 1119
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Leeds, United Kingdom
Wikidata item Q746876, property P131/P17 (location): Leeds, United Kingdom
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