The story of Winkworth Arboretum began when dermatologist Wilfrid Fox purchased 130 acres of woodland next to his farmhouse in the Thorncombe Valley.
Describd as a man of "humanity, simplicity, understanding and humour", Wilfrid Fox was a well-respected doctor with a great passion for horticulture.
Renowned dermatologist Dr Wilfrid Fox had owned Winkworth Farm in Hascombe since 1918, and had come to love the beautiful Thorncombe valley on his doorstep. He described it as “one of the most beautiful bits of Surrey that is left”.
It is the remarkable beauty of the valley...quite unspoiled, of pastoral and wooded character, patterned with hedgerows and abounding in wild flowers, with gentle undulating hills on the east side and a steep slope on the west side – which is now covered by the Arboretum – and the river stream winding between, forming two lakes which are the haunt of wildfowl.
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