News

With great regret, we have postponed our re-enactment of the visit of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon to Otford in 1520.  In the current… Read More »Field of the Cloth of Gold – postponed

It has been agreed that the Trust will become the delivery partner for the Darent Valley Landscape Partnership Scheme project 2D: Otford’s Hidden Palace. The… Read More »A delivery partner for the Darent Valley Landscape Partnership Scheme

The Trust and Sevenoaks District Council are delighted to announce that the 99-year lease of the Archbishop’s Palace site and buildings was completed on 19th… Read More »The lease

Observant walkers in Station Road Otford will have noticed a Tudor door being used as a garden gate, just past the end of the garden… Read More »The Tudor Door

850 years after his murder in Canterbury, Becket is coming back to Otford – a place where it is said he particularly enjoyed staying while… Read More »Thomas Becket returns to Otford

A group of about twenty visitors from the Council for British Archaeology South East visited Otford on Sunday 9th June 2019.  They spend the morning… Read More »Council for British Archaeology

One of the actions in the Darent Valley Landscape Partnership plan for the Archbishops’ Palace, is a botanical survey of Palace Field. This, together with… Read More »Surveying Palace Field

On 11th May, as part of a journey along the Darent Valley, the Mayors of Sevenoaks and Dartford, together with councillors from Sevenoaks District Council,… Read More »Darent Valley Mayors at the Palace

Museums have traditionally displayed historical artefacts in glass display cases which limit visitors’ opportunity to examine them in detail.  Technology can provide a solution to… Read More »Making artefacts more accessible

Laura Shield teaches at St Michael’s School, Otford, where she is head of History and Religious Education.  In her history degree she specialised in the… Read More »Laura Shield joints the Board of Trustees