Quick Help Needed! Darwin's Down House
Jul 1st, 2006, 10:56 AM
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Quick Help Needed! Darwin's Down House
We are thinkin about visiting on Sunday from London? Is it worth the trek? If we take the train to Orpington, how do we get to the actual house if the buses don't run on sundays? Thanks a million,
Jul 1st, 2006, 11:30 AM
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Well - you can walk 4 miles from Orpington. (I personally wouldn't try this trip on a Sunday since it would be a lot easier any other day of the week when the buses are running from Orpington)
Or, you could take the train to Croydon and then a cab to Downe.
Or you could take the train to Gatwick and rent a car for the day so you could visit Downe, Knole, Hever, Chartwell and/or other places.
Or, you could take the train to Croydon and then a cab to Downe.
Or you could take the train to Gatwick and rent a car for the day so you could visit Downe, Knole, Hever, Chartwell and/or other places.
Jul 1st, 2006, 12:41 PM
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Down House is well worth the visit. You have a view of Darwin’s way of life, his relations with other researchers and the church, and his pleasant family life -- he asked his man to build a tray for the children to toboggan downstairs.
Trains run every 15 minutes in 15 minutes from London Bridge to Bromley South. Then on weekdays bus no 146 goes every half hour in half an hour to the house. Daily bus number 246 runs from Bromley South to a pub and a green half a mile by uphill walk from the house.
I cannot get the National Trust web pages to show me Down House, so I worry that it may be closed for repair. You could e mail them to ask them. I suggest you ask them at [email protected]
If it is open please do go: it is a remarkable place.
Ben Haines, London
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Trains run every 15 minutes in 15 minutes from London Bridge to Bromley South. Then on weekdays bus no 146 goes every half hour in half an hour to the house. Daily bus number 246 runs from Bromley South to a pub and a green half a mile by uphill walk from the house.
I cannot get the National Trust web pages to show me Down House, so I worry that it may be closed for repair. You could e mail them to ask them. I suggest you ask them at [email protected]
If it is open please do go: it is a remarkable place.
Ben Haines, London
[email protected]
Jul 1st, 2006, 02:28 PM
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Ben - that is probably because it isn't NT. It is Managed by English Heritage.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/s...onProperty.102
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/s...onProperty.102
Jul 2nd, 2006, 10:09 AM
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Thanks. Unfortunately, it seems a little crazy for us to attempt it today. But you definitely convinced us that it is worth the trip when my sister returns to England in a few months. Cheers!!!
Jul 14th, 2006, 01:10 AM
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Today’s local free newspaper says that the house staff have set out many of Darwin’s experiments in his greenhouse, and in summer they take visitors on tours to explain what Darwin was doing. Now, when the sun shines and both the USA and the UK have active fundamentalists, may be a specially good time to go.
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