One evening we joined the Westcott Local History Group on a visit to the nearby Leith Hill Place run by the
National Trust.
An atmospheric house with panoramic
views across the Surrey countryside, Leith Hill Place was the childhood home of
one of England's greatest composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, who gave it to the
National Trust in 1944.
His grandparents, Josiah Wedgwood III and Caroline (née Darwin) moved there in 1847 and his great uncle, the famous
naturalist Charles Darwin, conducted earthworm experiments in the grounds.
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