Home of Charles Darwin - Down House
With its unique place in scientific history, Down House Garden was Charles Darwin’s ‘Living Landscape Laboratory’, where he tested his ideas of Evolution by means of Natural Selection.
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Walk in Darwin’s footsteps through his world-famous glasshouse and marvel at the exotic orchids, carnivorous plants and a whole host of tropical, climbing and frost tender plants which have links to Darwin's study of the natural world.
Walk around the Kitchen Garden, with its heritage varieties, and along his thinking path and surrounding flower rich meadows and see why Down House is a special place of pilgrimage for people from all over the World.
Visit Down House 🔗
Address
Luxted Road, Downe, Kent, BR6 7JT
Entry
Entry and opening times can be found on the English Heritage website.
| Down House Demonstrates | |
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| Organic principles | ✔ |
| Heritage Seed Library varieties | ✔ |
| Using peat free compost | ✔ |
