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Chilham demonstrates successful ‘community led tourism’ with the launch of the Chilham Country Break

 

 

As part of the Transmanche Sustainable Tourism Project, the Kent Downs AONB Unit has been working with Chilham’s tourism and retail businesses on developing a community led Country Break. With support from the Hidden Britain initiative, Chilham’s Country Break has now gone live highlighting all that is available in the village and surrounding areas.

Hickstead tickets now available online

 

 

Tickets for the British Jumping Derby Meeting (June 26-29) and the Longines Royal International Horse Show (July 22-27), both at the All England Jumping Course, Hickstead, can now be purchased online.

CLOTHES SHOW FROM YESTERYEAR

The Historic Clothing Exhibition, Monday 7 - Friday 18 April; and ‘Grow Your Own Clothes Day’ Sunday 13 April, at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum


England’s leading museum of historic buildings and traditional rural life will showcase a fascinating collection of replica historical clothing at an exhibition during the Easter holidays. The Historic Clothing Project was set up by the Museum’s Interpretation Department with the aim of providing well-researched and constructed replica period clothing for use in the furnished buildings on site, and the Exhibition, entitled ‘Cutting Your Cloth’, will be a chance to display the items produced

MEET THE SPRING LAMBS THIS EASTER HOLIDAY

 

 

Lambs and Traditional Breed Farm Animals at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum’s Beautiful Downland Site
The Easter school holidays from 5th – 20th April wouldn’t be complete without a visit to England’s leading museum of historic buildings and traditional rural life. New spring lambs are just one of the many reasons to visit the museum, which is set in 50 glorious acres of the South Downs just north of Chichester at the village of Singleton.

Family Kite Day on the Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire

 

 

Learn about the magnificent red kite and make a kite from recycled materials.

Get up close and personal with the magnificent red kite in an interactive workshop (11am and 2pm.)

Win a holiday in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

For the fifth year running, Britain’s 49 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) have joined forces to man a stand at the Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show at the NEC next weekend (14-16th March).

Created by the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty are just that! They contain some of our country’s finest landscapes and countryside and are home to some of our most exquisite and unusual wildlife species. AONBs are diverse in character: areas of lowland heath; upland mountains; gently rolling hills; coastal plains and shingle beaches; each containing unique and fascinating landscape features.

Discovering Lost Ways project is under threat

 

 

The British Horse Society (BHS) is outraged that Natural England is advocating the abandonment of a project to research and improve the rights of way network in England.

In 2000, the Countryside Agency established the Discovering Lost Ways (DLW) project to identify and record historic rights of way that existed before 1949.

HEAVY HORSES GATHER FOR TWO DAY SUMMER SPECTACULAR

The Heavy Horse Spectacular, Saturday/Sunday 31 May & 1 June, Weald & Downland
Open Air Museum

The grace and strength of the giants of the horse world will be on display in a magnificent gathering this summer at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex. Due to the increasing popularity of the event, the Heavy Horse Spectacular was successfully extended to two days for the first time last year: this year there is even more action and excitement planned for the Saturday, plus the usual full programme on the Sunday. It promises to be an unforgettable weekend of displays, demonstrations and parades guaranteed to delight visitors of all ages.

An Evening with Tim Stockdale

 

 

On the 18th March 2008 Hadlow College, Tonbridge will be host to ‘An Evening with Tim Stockdale’. The world renowned international show jumper most recently hit the public eye with his training for the contestants for the hit BBC series ‘Only Fools On Horses’ as well as years of high ranking international placing.

EASTER FESTIVITIES FOR ALL THE FAMILY!

 

 

Celebrations, activities, fun and good food: Friday 21 – Monday 24 March 2008 at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum.

A packed programme of events and activities awaits visitors to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex, throughout the Easter weekend (21 - 24 March). The ‘Easter Festivities’ have proved to be a very popular and enjoyable addition to the award-winning Museum’s annual programme of seasonal countryside events, with activities designed to appeal to all the family.