High Elms Country Park
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High Elms Country Park is an extensive 250-acre public park on the North Downs in Farnborough in the London Borough of Bromley. It is a Local Nature Reserve, and together with the neighbouring Downe B
A path through the woodland at High Elms Country Park
Formal flower beds
The former stable block
The Grade II-listed ice well
Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, FRS, was an English banker, barrister, mathematician and astronomer.
High Elms Country Park
…Baronet), bought the 260 acres now known as the High Elms Estate as a country residence. In 1840 it was inherited by his son, the astronomer and banker Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, who built a grand new mansion in the Italian style. His son, also called John Lubbock, had been born in 1834. When Charles Darwin moved in 1842 into…
John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet ca 1843