The Leicester Arms, once part of the Penshurst Estate, was owned by Sir William Sidney, grandfather of poet and statesman Sir Philip Sidney. His other grandson, Viscount De L’isle was appointed Earl of Leicester in 1618 and it was shortly after this that The Leicester Arms, formerly known as The Porcupine, was renamed in his honour. The inn is now owned privately.
There is a Penshurst railway station. It is some 2 miles to the north of the village, at the hamlet of Chiddingstone Causeway.
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Penshurst Place is an historic building near Tonbridge in Kent, 32 miles (50 km) to the south east of London.
The ancient village of Penshurst was within the manor of that name: the manor appears as Penecestre or Penchester, a name adopted by Stephen de Penecestre, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, who possessed the manor towards the end of the 13th century.
He was buried in old St Paul's, in London, having died 25 days after a fatal wounding from a bullet in the thigh at the battle of Zutphen, but his tomb was destroyed in the great fire of London in 1666.
Penshurst was one of the earliest towns to develop a creamery to supply the Hamilton Butter Factory Company.
Penshurst retains a hospital, two primary schools, a computer centre, a large community hall, a senior citizens centre, an hotel, a restaurant, a caravan park and other accommodation and a variety of rural and domestic trades and services.
Penshurst is known for its Easter and Boxing Day horse races an annual rodeo and campdraft, a country-and-western weekend in February, the Agricultural Show on the first Saturday in December, and the Christmas party.
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