The building now houses Shrewsbury Library and has been restored to its Elizabethan splendour. At the front entrance is an imposing statue of Darwin erected in 1897. An interesting account of his schooldays appeared in The life and letters of Charles Darwin (1887) edited by his son, Francis.
At the age of sixteen Charles was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, but this was not to his liking so after two years he went to Cambridge, his father now intending him to become a parson. The invitation to sail on the Beagle as a naturalist in 1831, of course, thwarted the ecclesiastical career, but set up Charles Darwin to become, in the following years, one of the most influential figures of the century. Darwin is not, strictly speaking, a literary figure but the impact of his discoveries and theories was so great in scientific, religious, philosophic and literary fields that he has to be included here. His two most famous works were On the origin of species by means of natural selection (1859) and The descent of man (1871).All the famous land marks are within walking distance of Tudor house and for this reason visitors love to stay at the Tudor guest house to be near all the attractions old and new.
Tudor House is proud of its heritage a 1460 building of days long ago when Charles Darwin as a young boy played in the streets outside this house and its surrounding areas, stay at the lovely Tudor house and walk in Darwin’s footsteps
