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23 Jun 2018 Down House, Orpington, Kent

A full day walk from Orpington to Hayes stations in Kent via Downe village and Down House, home of Charles Darwin.

The original rationale of this walk was to repeat one undertaken on June 18th, 1892. On that occasion a co-leader was William Erasmus Darwin, the first son of the famous Charles.  The Victorian walkers (over 120) were entertained to tea at Down House by Charles’s widow Emma Darwin.  Continue reading »