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Charles Darwin’s home and surrounding landscape at Downe, in Bromley, is proposed as a World Heritage Property. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is putting forward ‘Darwin's Landscape Laboratory’ as the UK’s World Heritage Property nomination bid for 2009.

The landscape of the site preserves the character of the neighbourhood and many of the settings that Darwin lived and worked in for forty years, and many of the plant, insect and animal species that he worked on there can still be seen in the habitats in which he studied them.

Discover Darwin

And now, thanks to a grant of £0.25M from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the influence of those surroundings and its biodiversity will be the subject of a series of public events, special activities and production of educational resources throughout 2009.

Darwin 200

Bromley are also a partner in Darwin200, which is a national programme of events celebrating Charles Darwin’s scientific ideas and their impact around his two hundredth birthday on 12 February 2009.  Events will build up to November 2009, which is the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'On the Origin of Species'. Bromley will be taking part in these exciting celebrations and details of events throughout the year will be made available shortly. 

More detailed information is available on the Darwin's Landscape Laboratory website.

Contacts

World Heritage Team
Telephone:  020 8313 4665
e-mail:  conservation@bromley.gov.uk

Address: 
World Heritage Team, Civic Centre, Stockwell Colse, Bromley BR1 3UH