{"id":487,"date":"2020-10-31T19:37:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/ga_venues\/leith-hill-place\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T10:16:38","slug":"leith-hill-place","status":"publish","type":"ga_venues","link":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/ga_venues\/leith-hill-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Leith Hill Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_3 et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_left\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>Leith Hill Place was the childhood home of Ralph Vaughan Williams who gave it to the National Trust in 1944. His grandparents, Josiah Wedgwood III and Caroline (n\u00e9e Darwin) moved there in 1847 and his great uncle, the famous naturalist Charles Darwin, conducted experiments in the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>In July of 2013 the house was opened to the public for the first time since the 1960s and welcomed over 8000 visitors. As a work in progress there is still a lot of work to be done but the house is starting to feel loved again and the National Trust is breathing life back into it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_image et_pb_image_1 et_pb_has_overlay et_always_center_on_mobile et-animated\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leith Hill Lane<\/p>\n<p>Dorking<\/p>\n<p>United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>Surrey<\/p>\n<p>Rh5 6LY<\/p>\n<p>Tel:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leith Hill Place was the childhood home of Ralph Vaughan Williams who gave it to the National Trust in 1944. His grandparents, Josiah Wedgwood III and Caroline (n\u00e9e Darwin) moved there in 1847 and his great uncle, the famous naturalist Charles Darwin, conducted experiments in the grounds. In July of 2013 the house was opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":852,"template":"","meta":[],"ga_event_venue":[76],"ga_venue_taxonomy":[347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ga_venues\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ga_venues"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ga_venues"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ga_event_venue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ga_event_venue?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"ga_venue_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ga_venue_taxonomy?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}