Darwin's Landscape Laboratory

Darwin's Landscape Laboratory is the house, gardens and countryside around Downe, Cudham and Keston where Darwin lived and worked for the forty years of his scientific maturity including his work on 'The Origin of Species'.

The surviving landscape and buildings bear unique testimony both to his outstanding contribution to human understanding of natural life and to the ways of working he developed there. His ideas and methods are now basic to the scientific investigation of living processes in the natural world.

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And thanks to a grant of £0.25M from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the influence of those surroundings and its biodiversity is the subject of a series of public events, special activities and production of educational resources throughout 2010 and 2011. M

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