Welcome to Rural Ways
Rural Ways is your online gateway to the countryside. We have hundreds of walking, cycling and horse-riding routes for you to explore, as well as, a whole host of information to help you and your family enjoy the South East's rich rural landscape.
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News
16.06.08
PERIOD MUSIC IN A BEAUTIFUL HISTORIC SETTING
The beautiful downland setting of England’s leading museum of historic buildings will provide a fitting backdrop to the peaceful strains of period music on Sunday 6 July. The ever-popular Early Music Afternoon returns to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex, and involves groups of musicians performing in and around the Museum’s historic buildings
01.06.08
A WONDERFUL GATHERING OF THE RAREST OF FARM ANIMALS
Rare and Traditional Breeds Show: Sunday 20 July, Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
Four legs, furry legs, fluffy legs, feathered legs…come and get up close to over 500 cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and poultry at the Rare and Traditional Breeds Show this summer at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex. This delightful annual agricultural show for rare and traditional breeds of farm animals takes place on Sunday 20 July, is one of the biggest and most popular shows of its kind in the South East.
06.05.08
Rural crafts Take ten
A film-based exhibition looking at ten individual craftspeople working in the countryside today
11 March to 22 June 2008
For more than 50 years MERL has been recording and collecting rural crafts. In a recent update, the Museum has been making films of ten craftspeople to relate its collections to the contemporary countryside. This exhibition is about the project and about rural craftsmanship today...
Rural Ways is a collaborative project undertaken on behalf of the Rural Ways Partnership. The site is funded by Tourism South East, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Government Office for the South East (GOSE)'s Strategy for Sustainable Food and Farming and the Countryside Agency's Landscape, Access and Recreation division.
About the Rural Ways project and the Rural Ways Partnership.
