Leith Hill Place
Originally a gabled house of about 1600, this was completely refaced in a Palladian style about 1760 by Richard Hull. It was bought in 1847 by Josiah Wedgwood III and remained in the family until the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who had been brought up there and eventually inherited it, gave it to the National Trust in 1944. Subsequently it was tenanted from the Trust by his cousins Sir Ralph Wedgwood and then Sir John Wedgwood. Josiah Wedgwood's widow, born Caroline Darwin, created there a fine rhododendron wood, now open to the public.
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