Explore The South Downs
Places to visit during your South Downs stay
Get outside and explore
The farm is set in the South Downs National Park with numerous woodland trails with panoramic views over Petersfield, Steep and Hawkley, waiting to be explored!
A short walk from your bell tent is the Ashford Hangers Nature Reserve. With its network of walking tracks it holds important historical connections to the journalist William Cobbett and war time poet Edward Thomas who’s memorial stone within the hangers offers a commanding view of the South Downs Way with Petersfield lying beneath. We provide details of some of the best walking routes to include directions to take you to Cobbett's View and The Poet's Stone.
Places to visit
The secretive Priors Dean Vineyard overlooking the village of Hawkley (wine from the vineyard can be made available on request).
The historic market town of Petersfield is approximately 3 miles away, with lively town square, boating lake and weekly markets, also offering mainline train station to further afield destinations such as Portsmouth historical dockyards or the Isle of Wight.
A short drive away
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Selbourne’s Gilbert White Museum
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Queen Elizabeth Country Park
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Butser Hill (highest point in Hampshire) and Butser Ancient Farm
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Harting Hill with beautiful walking routes
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Goodwood racecourse
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Cowdray Park
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Petworth Park
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Watercress Line, Alton
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The beach is a 45 minute drive away
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Devils Punch Bowl is a 15 minute drive
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Meon Springs offers fishing experiences
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Paultons Park and Peppa Pig World under 1 hour drive away
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Shipwrights Way – a cycle route from Bentley to Portsmouth Dockyard, part of the national cycle network route 22, linking London to Portsmouth