Weekend getaway
Highclere Castle
The Carnarvon family home and best known as television’s Downton Abbey Highclere Castle is nestled in the North Hampshire countryside. Highclere offers different tours throughout the year, which reflect the seasons, the history and of course Downton Abbey.
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Bombay Sapphire Distillery
Uncover the secrets of Bombay Sapphire gin on the site of a former paper mill in Whitchurch. Behind the doors of the historic distillery at Laverstoke Mill in rural Hampshire, you can unveil the care, skill and artistry behind every drop of Bombay Sapphire.
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Whitchurch Silk Mill
Whitchurch Silk Mill is the UK’s oldest working silk mill and a gem of industrial heritage located on the River Test in quintessential rural Hampshire. For more than 200 years, the mill has been drawing power from the gin-clear waters of the river via its waterwheel and is still weaving beautiful silk using 19th-century machinery.
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The Vyne
Explore a former Tudor powerhouse turned 17th Century family home, set in gardens, woodlands and wetlands. Historic gems include a pre-Reformation chapel, Tudor oak gallery with 16th Century wood carvings and neo-classical staircase hall.
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Hidden Britain Tours
Discover the cradle of Jane Austen’s genius exploring the picturesque villages that Jane Austen knew so well as her birthplace and her father’s church at Steventon. Hidden Britain Tours will guide you through the country houses where she fell in and out of love, trace the people she mentions in her letters and where she danced at social events.
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Combine your visits to these attractions with the beautiful countryside. Follow in the footsteps of Whitchurch resident and author Richard Adams as you explore the stunning North Hampshire landscape that author Richard Adams so loved to wander and where he told his tale of the rabbits of Watership Down. Or take a gentle walk along part of the Test Valley with the Whitchurch Mill Trail. The trail is an attractive circular walk of up to seven miles taking in crystal clear waters, grazing livestock and surviving watermills. Trail leaflets can be collected from Whitchurch Silk Mill or can be downloaded.
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