The spring is on the left about half way along the drive from Buckhurst Park to Withyham in a brick structure. Chalybeate springs are common on the sandstones around here, water containing supposedly health-giving iron salts emerging where the porous sandstone meets the clays below. The best known is in the Pantiles in Tunbridge Wells but the brown sludge oozing from this spring looks most unappetising.
The present house was built in 1662 with the help of Sir Christopher Wren. Diarist and horticulturist John Evelyn helped with the garden. The garden, but not the house, is open to the public with attractions in the "Enchanted Forest" aimed at children.
Both Groombridge and Withyham are accessible by bus from Tunbridge Wells.
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