Fantastic Mr Fox visits Bedgebury
Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox is being brought to life this summer at Bedgebury.
Today is the last day of Countryside 2011!
We hope you have enjoyed your experience of Countryside 2011, tried a wealth of different outdoor activities, and want to carry on and do more! With some much to see and do in the English countryside, we hope you’re tempted out into the Great Outdoors for good!
Tell us what you think!
We hope you’re finding plenty to do during Countryside 2011, enjoying the Great Outdoors and perhaps trying out all sorts of new activities. We’d love to hear about it!
Countryside 2011 launches!
Great news! Countryside 2011 is finally upon us and there are almost 900 events on the Event Directory, which will give you plenty of choice when deciding what to do with your family and friends during May half term and the following week.
Countryside 2011 gets great press!
Following the fantastic piece about Countryside 2011 broadcast yesterday on ITV Meridian, today’s Daily Mirror has a feature in its ‘Welcome to the Weekend’ section, and we hope the Sunday Times will run a piece in the Style Section this Sunday. Yesterday, Countryside 2011 organiser Exbury Gardens welcomed HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall to the steam railway.
ITV Meridian films Countryside 2011 at Haredown Mountain Boarding Centre
ITV Meridian has today visited the Haredown Mountain Board Centre near Chichester in West Sussex, to find out about activities being run as part of Countryside 2011. The piece is due to be aired tonight on the 6pm news – don’t forget to watch!
Join in with the Countryside 2011 Competitions!
Countryside 2011’s second competition is coming to an end….the third competition will launch this Friday. Join in for your chance to win some great prizes.
Countryside 2011 begins this Saturday!
With more than 870 events on the Event Directory, now is the time to start planning what new activities you might try over the next two weeks. Check out the fabulous array of events listed on the Directory…
South London Press launches fabulous Countryside 2011 Competition!
To celebrate the launch of Countryside 2011, the South London Press is running a competition in its Pulse Magazine which will see one lucky reader get their family out into the Kent countryside for a whole weekend of outdoor activity!
Archery at Bedgebury is back!
Archery adds another string to Bedgebury’s bow as the ever-popular Bedgebury archery sessions are now well underway again and will continue right through the summer until the end of October.
Explore Kent iPhone and Android app
Check out the new iPhone and Android app just launched by Explore Kent, to help you plan all your trips round Kent.
Stonegate Farmers’ Market
For all your foodie needs this weekend, why not visit Stonegate Farmers’ Market in East Sussex on Saturday 14 May, and stock up with a delicious range of seasonal and local produce from a number of local farmers and producers.
Carry the forest in your pocket with new ForestXplorer iPhone app!
Forestry Commission England has launched a free iPhone app to find your local woodland, download handy trail maps or learn about trees with an easy to use tree identifier.
National Family Week is back!
Take a look what’s happening near you during National Family Week 2011, from 30 May to 5 June…
Sixth Annual Kent County Fair at The Hop Farm
The Hop Farm have released details of their exciting plans for the sixth annual Kent County Fair, which will be held within their 500 acre site during the Bank Holiday weekend 30 April to 2 May 2011.
Great Gardens of Sussex
A great value passport to Great Gardens of Sussex has been launched: visit three of the gardens and enjoy the fourth free of charge!
Solo Art Exhibition in Oxford
Check out an art exhibition by artist Michele Field, and perhaps one of her rosebud paintings would make an ideal Valentine’s Day Gift!
All Aboard to RSPB Pulborough Brooks this Winter!
New Sunday and Bank Holiday service to the Pulborough to Horsham bus route, starting and finishing at RSPB Pulborough Brooks’ car park.
Kent CAMRA Beer Festival: 22 – 24 July
Get a taste for real regional ales at the second oldest Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) beer festival in England.
It’s Beatrix Potter Time at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire
Enjoy fun and games with Peter Rabbit and friends this July in the glorious grounds of Mottisfont Abbey beside the River Test.
The first Surrey Produce Festival: Sunday 4th July
Plenty to see, taste and buy on panoramic Box Hill.
Festival of Cycling at Bedgebury Forest – 17 & 18 July
Free coaching sessions, skills activities, enduro races, treasure hunt and more in safe and super off-road setting.
Adopt an Otter with the Surrey Wildlife Trust
And help protect the future of this charismatic creature.
Abingdon Air & Country Show – 2nd May
Oxfordshire’s great charity fund-raiser presents three hours of Flying Displays, ground attractions for all the family, vintage and classic vehicles and a superb walk round Static Display of modern & vintage aeroplanes gathered for the event.
Special Treat for Garden-Lovers on 24th & 25th April
The Garden Show in Spring at Firle Place is an excellent reason to visit the East Sussex countryside this weekend. It’s also a rare opportunity to explore the 18th-century Secret Gardens of Firle Place.
20 – 21 March: a Spring Bonus from the National Trust
The National Trust will be opening their doors for free on the weekend of 20-21 March 2011!
Last chance to see Bewick’s swans
Last chance to see Bewick’s swans before they head north to their breeding grounds.
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Idyllic England of the 1930s
Open now for winter weekends, Pendon Indoor Model Village and Railways, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, is a rare and special place. In exquisite and colourful miniature, it captures the life and landscape of the Vale of the White Horse as it was around 1930.
Cinderellas of the Soil: Digging for Victory on the Sussex Downs
The Land Girls: Cinderellas of the Soil tells the triumphant story of the 200,000 women who left their pre-war lives to learn milking, rat catching, threshing and tractor driving as members of the Women’s Land Army, whose heroic efforts sustained our farming industry during World War II.
OS OpenSpace - mapping mashups for the great outdoors
Outdoors types can now benefit from a wealth of new websites that are being developed using OS OpenSpace. This great new facility from the national mapping agency allows anybody with a website to overlay information directly onto Ordnance Survey mapping. So events, activities, routes, locations and more can be displayed on a map and shared with others.
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15 Jul 2011
Mondraker comes to Bedgebury
Quench Cycles has joined forces with distributor Silverfish to sell Mondraker bikes through its Forestry Commission outlets at Bedgebury and Alice Holt. There will be a Demo Day on 23 and 24 July! Read more
Missing all those outdoor activities offered for Countryside2011? Get out and about with National Bike Week @TGBBikeWeek http://bit.ly/Hb38D
Congratulations to all the winners of the fab prizes offered by Countryside 2011 http://bit.ly/ltlSB4
We’d love to hear what you thought of the events or activities you took part in. Please complete our online survey http://ow.ly/5gjs9
Water-ski, Wakebaord or Jet Ski at the South East’s Premier Watersports Venue. http://bit.ly/kOqJfG
See the red squirrels in the walk-through enclosure at the British Wildlife Centre! Visit http://bit.ly/k2thrJ
