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Winkworth Arboretum, Surrey is a National Trust place with over 1000 types of trees and shrubs alive with colour in autumn. The 95 acres arboretum was founded by Dr Wilfrid Fox, starting in 1938 and continuing through World War II. He cleared the land and planted it with carefully chosen trees and shrubs to maximise its autumnal appearance. Once it was established, he presented it to the National Trust in 1952.
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Loseley Park
6.11km from National Trust - Winkworth Arboretum
Loseley Park is set in acres of rolling parkland just south of Guildford in Surrey and very close to the towns of Godalming and Farncombe. Loseley Park hosts luxury weddings, and special events that are bespoke and unique to each client offering exclusive hire throughout the summer months.
National Trust - Shalford Mill
6.51km from National Trust - Winkworth Arboretum
Shalford Mill is a great example of an 18th century water mill. It is a National Trust site near Guildford in Surrey. This large timber-framed mill on the River Tillingbourne was given in 1932 by a group of anonymous NT benefactors calling themselves ‘Ferguson’s Gang’.
Watts Cemetery Chapel
7.01km from National Trust - Winkworth Arboretum
The Watts Cemetery Chapel is a dazzling hodgepodge of Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Romanesque Revival, and Celtic Revival architecture. While the overall architectural structure is loosely Romanesque Revival, in the absence of any appropriate Celtic models, the lavish decoration in terracotta relief carving and paintings is Celtic Revival, here seen on an unusually large scale. One of the iconic attractions in this area and it is also a Grade I listed building.
Watts Gallery - Artists' Village
7.28km from National Trust - Winkworth Arboretum
Watts Gallery is a unique art gallery and heritage site consisting of historic Arts & Crafts buildings, learning studios for art and pottery workshops, an award-winning Tea Shop and beautifully landscaped woodlands and grounds. Nestled in the Surrey Hills, the Artists’ Village is just 40 minutes from London. This Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England is dedicated to the work of the Victorian-era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts.
Guildford Museum
8.07km from National Trust - Winkworth Arboretum
Guildford Museum is the main museum is in the town of Guildford, Surrey, England. It was housed in beautiful, historic buildings next to the Castle Grounds. The exhibitions are free to visit and include a variety of changing exhibitions, plus a permanent collection of objects dating from prehistoric times. It cares for over 75,000 objects, dating from c.500,000 BC to the modern day. The Museum's collection contains objects either from, or in some way related to, Guildford, and to a lesser exten
Guildford Castle
8.13km from National Trust - Winkworth Arboretum
Guildford Castle is in Guildford, Surrey, England. It is thought to have been built by William the Conqueror, or one of his barons, shortly after the 1066 invasion of England. The grounds at Guildford Castle opened as public gardens in 1888 to mark Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. The gardens have wonderful floral displays, centred on the 11th Century Castle Keep. Other attractions include a life-size statue of Alice Through the Looking Glass, a bowling green and music concerts in the b
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Surrey is a county in South East England which borders Kent to the east, a very short border with East Sussex to the southeast, West Sussex to the south, Hampshire to the west, Berkshire to the northwest, and Greater London to the northeast. With about 1.2 million people, Surrey is the 12th-most populous English county, the third-most populous home county, after Kent and Essex, and the third-most populous in the Southeast, after Hampshire and Kent.
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