Local Area & Events

The local area has much to offer:

• Easy walking from West End across farmland and woods via public footpaths
• Cycle routes and extensive walking in North East Hampshire
• 1 hour drive/train into London
• Half hour drive to Winchester
• Jane's Austen's house in Chawton
• Gilbert White's house and Study Centre in Selborne
• Alice Holt Forest
• Allen Gallery and Curtis Museum in Alton
• Watercress Line Steam Railway from Alton with 'Day's out with Thomas'
• Just 45 minutes from Portsmouth and cross-channel ferries
• Kempton, Newbury, Sandown, Epsom and Ascot racecourses are all within 45 mins, and Goodwood and Fontwell within 1 hour
• Numerous golfcourses locally

If you would like more local info, please just ask...having been here for 40 years, we should be able to help!