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Sustainability Event

England's leading museum of historic buildings will look firmly to the future on Sunday 20 and Monday 21 May, when it hosts its annual celebration of sustainability and 'green' building technology. The event at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex, includes a day for the general public on Sunday 20 May, and a 'Sustainability for Schools' day on Monday 21 May. Both days will focus on exciting developments in modern building methods, materials and techniques, as well as examining other areas of sustainability such as alternative energy sources, energy efficiency, recycling and sustainable water use.

CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL PREVIEW EVENING, WEDNESDAY, 7 MARCH

The West Berkshire Racing Club is staging its annual preview of National Hunt Racing’s most prestigious meeting, the four day Cheltenham Festival, on Wednesday 7 March at 8 pm in the Hennessy Restaurant at Newbury Racecourse.

Paws for a Walk

 

 

PAWS FOR A WALK

An online nationwide club aimed at encouraging women to walk with their dogs.

Walking West Sussex Festival comes to Singleton

This is the fifth year that West Sussex County Council will be organising the Walking West Sussex Festival, and the Weald and Downland Museum with its six centuries of traditional rural buildings, will be host to this very popular event which runs from the 10th – 14th October 2007.

Set in the delightful unspoilt countryside in the glorious South Downs, the area has some of the most beautiful scenery in the country and certainly some of the best walking in the British Isles.

Horse drawn omnibus tours the New Forest

 

 

Visitors to the New Forest can enjoy a rare breeds spectacle  - a 1906 omnibus, the Ringwood Rover, being pulled by a team of magnificent Suffolk Punch horses.

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