Guide to places to visit near Alice Holt Forest
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RAINY DAY?...
If the weather looks set to spoil your day out in the woods, or if you've simply got time on your hands and want to see some other local places. Or if the urge to shop till you drop takes over, here's a few highlights.
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Martin Stringer's motto is "Spread the word" .He's a great believer in local businesses promoting themselves through networking events which he organises and through his website , part of the multi-award winning "The best of UK" group.
Here you'll find pubs, restaurants, shopping and all sorts of other handy business contacts for the local area. And you'll see feedback and comments placed online by genuine users , sharing their experience of the businesses featured. So visit thebestof.co.uk/farnham : see what's on offer and review any of the featured businesses you've experienced.
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SPRINGFIELDS NURSERY & GARDEN CENTRE : a great value, family run garden centre
A pleasant drive through the nearby villages of Kingsley and Oakhanger brings you to Springfields Nursery. Run by Barry Plumber, this is a "proper" garden centre, meaning one which sells mainly plants and garden sundries, not loads of lampshades, candles and pick'n'mix sweets! Ther prices are very competitive and there's always a good stock of perennials, bedding plants, trees,shrubs, water plants and young vegetable ready to plant out. Springfields carries a full range of tools, fetrilizers, composts, seeds, bulbs and all the nick nacks the gardener needs. There's also larger items like fencing, garden furniture and large ceramic pots and tubs. Pet owners will find a wide range of petfood and other supplies, often at remarkably good prices. Springfields sponsors a number of local events such as the Binsted Fete and Flower Show and is very popular with local gardeners who value the friendly and knowledgable service.
Directions to visit Springfields: take the A325 from Alice Holt south towards Bordon. Turn right at the lights onto the B3004 Alton Road. Take the first left after Kingsley, signposted Oakhanger. After you go through Oakhanger village, Springfields is a mile or so further on , on the right.
Telephone 01420 472528
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JANE AUSTEN'S HOUSE : Home of one of our finest authors: a classically English atmosphere.
Copyright 2007 Jane Austen's House Museum
Jane Austen is undoubtedly one of the greatest among Britains's many great novelists. And the author of Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice is probably more popular now than ever before in her 200 year history, thanks partly to a number of highly successful TV and Movie adaptations. The last eight years of her life were spent in a delightful 17th century red brick house in the pretty village of Chawton, near Alton. Here she wrote Emma , Mansfield Park and Persuasion and substantially revised other works including probably the most famous of all: Pride and Prejudice. The house is now kept as a museum, retaining the domestic atmosphere of a substantial, yet simple, middle-class country home at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century.
The house is in the centre of Chawton set among modest, but delightful gardens and outhouses. Considering the almost super-star status Jane Austen has globally, Chawton is largely free of commercial tourist tat , and the museum shop and cafe are very discreet, unlike so many visitor attractions where they seem to domibnate. Directions, opening times and admission prices can be found at www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk
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GILBERT WHITE'S HOUSE : Home of one of the founders of Natural History.
Incorporating the OATES MUSEUM: dedicated to the famous companion of Captain Scott on their ill-fated Antarctic mission.
Copyright British Museum, Gilbert White's House & The Oates Museum
Gilbert White was an Eighteenth Century country parson, who could have quite easily passed his life in complete obscurity, but for his publication in 1789 of The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne : a collection of remarkable letters to friends and fellow amateur scientists detailing his meticulous observations of the wildlife of this idyllic Hampshire village. It has since become a classic of English literature, alike for it's captivating picture of rural life in the 1700's and for it's significance as a seminal work of natural science. Gilbert White knew Alice Holt Forest and the nearby Woolmer Forest well, then in their last days as true Royal Forests ,over which deer were hunted. But most of his observations relate to the immediate vicinity, especially the woods and fields of the steep hills or "Hangers" that overlook Selborne.
As White was such a detailed recorder of his surroundings ,it has been possible to restore both the house itself and the 20-odd acres of gardens and parkland surrounding it to very much the way they'd have been in the Eighteenth Century when White lived there. The famous "Zig-zag path" ,often referred to by White can be followed up the Hill towards the steep beechwoods which are a delightful place for a stroll. Among the treasures on display is the original manuscript of Whites famous book.
The old barn in the land surrounding the House is now a Field Studies Centre used by schools and there is a shop, tea parlour and plants for sale in the gardens.
The house also provides a home for the museum of the OatesFamily archives: commemorating Captain Lawrence Oates who died with Scott in 1911, trying to reach the South Pole ,and also his Uncle, Frank a Victorian traveller who explored much of the interior of the "Dark Continent" of Africa in the Nineteenth Century.
Directions, opening times and admission prices can be found at www.gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk
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