Indoor Attractions for COUNTRYSIDE 2010
Posted on 08/06/10
Don’t let a wet day dampen your enjoyment of the countryside. The Event Directory has details of some fascinating undercover attractions on a rural theme.
Milton’s Cottage at Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire as it is today.
To whet your appetite, here are six of the best indoor attractions selected from the Event Directory.
In rural Buckinghamshire, Milton’s Cottage
has lost none of its charm since John Milton (1608-1674) came here to escape the London plague and to finish his epic poem, Paradise Lost. Little changed since Milton’s knew it, the cottage is now a museum of his work and times.
The Pendon Indoor Model Village and Railways in Oxfordshire recaptures, in detailed and colourful miniature, scenes showing the beauty of the English countryside of the 1930s, complete with model railways.
A Surrey Cottage by Helen Allingham – one of the paintings featured in A Country Life Remembered at Guildford Museum.
Surrey’s Rural Life Centre at Farnham is a mine of information on agricultural heritage. It presents implements and artifacts from 150 years of farming in a lovely ten acre setting of woods and fields.
Eling Tide Mill, in Hampshire, harnesses the power of the tide to grind wheat into wholemeal flour. It is a rare chance to visit one of the only tide mills in the world which still produces flour daily in a 900 year old tradition.
At the Cowper & Newton Museum, at Olney in Buckinhamshire,
you can explore the houses and garden where leading poet William Cowper (1731-1800) lived next door to John Newton, the slave-trader turned preacher who wrote many famous hymns, including Amazing Grace.
A Country Life – Remembering Rural Surrey is a glimpse of the past captured through objects and paintings from the late 19th century, which remind us of an earlier Surrey, the countryside and its customs. The exhibition continues at Guildford Museum until 3rd July.
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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
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