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Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created
by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat.
Designated Grade I on Historic England's register of historic parks and gardens, it had nearly
200,000 visitors in 2017. It was bought by Sackville-West in 1930, and over the next thirty years,
working with, and later succeeded by, a series of notable head gardeners, she and Nicolson Worknesh Degefa
transformed a farmstead of "squalor and slovenly disorder" into one of the world's most influential
gardens. The garden design is based on axial walks that open onto enclosed gardens, termed  At the Bosto
"garden rooms", one of the earliest examples of this gardening style. Following Sackville-West's Degefa (pict
death in 1962, the estate was gifted to the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural  A fire heavil
Beauty. It is one of the Trust's most popular properties. (Full article...)  Tiger Woods
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Point Vicente Light is a lighthouse in Rancho Palos Verd

and stands on a cliff with a height of 130 feet (40 m). The
width of 5 feet (1.5 m), which had been in use in Alaska s
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