Vaughan Williams' Childhood Home
The childhood home of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, a house of about 1600 on the hill's southern slopes.
From King's Cross St Pancras: 2 h 33 min by train and on foot from Holmwood (a 1 h 2 min walk) · 1 h 45 min by car
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Time there: 1–1.5 h
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The house on the southern slopes of Leith Hill dates from about 1600.
It was the childhood home of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who gave it to the National Trust in 1944.
The piano on which he composed The Lark Ascending went on display here in 2016.
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