Welkinweir is a 197-acre oasis of natural beauty featuring a 55-acre arboretum and historic estate house, as well as ecologically diverse wetland, meadow, and woodland habitats. The estate was built in 1940, onto an 18th-century farmhouse, and designed to blend into the natural beauty of the surrounding land and provide a pleasant background for relaxed country living and entertaining. The gardens surrounding the home contain mature specimens of rare and unusual trees and shrubs, flowering plants, and water gardens