AA guideguide toto thethe history,history, waysways ofof life,life, attractionsattractions andand leisureleisure activitiesactivities ofof thethe NorthNorth WessexWessex DownsDowns -- anan AreaArea ofof OutstandingOutstanding NaturalNatural BeautyBeauty 20072007 Featuring: • Beautiful views from far… and very near! Page 4 • And did those feet… Page 6 • COMPETITION - Win a Taste-Box! Page 14 • Need funding for a local project? Page 20 Highclere Museum of the Iron Age Castle 6 Church Close, Andover Hampshire SP10 1DP Newbury Tel: 01264 366283 Berkshire Step inside and discover a way of life that RG20 9RN was destroyed by the Romans. The displays give you a vivid impression of what life was like for our Tel: 01635 253210 prehistoric ancestors who farmed, fought, worshipped and died in www.highclerecastle.co.uk Wessex over 2000 years ago. Open Sun-Thu Open Tue-Sat 10.00am-5.00pm. (Last entry 4.30pm). Admission Free. 1-15 April, 1 July-30 August www.hants.gov.uk/museum/ironagem Free Admission to Gardens Shop and Tea Rooms Historic Ruin Whitchurch Redbridge Lane,Basing, Hampshire RG24 7HB Silk Mill Ruins of the Elizabethan Lord Treasurer of 28 Winchester Street, Whitchurch England’s enormous palace, stormed by Cromwell Hampshire, RG28 7AL in 1645 after the longest seige of the Civil War. T: 01256 892065 F: 01256 893882 E:
[email protected] Remains of Tudor kitchens, cellars, towers and barn W: www.whitchurchsilkmill.org.uk still survive, while a re-created period garden brings life and colour back to the ruins. Picturesque watermill on the River Test where the tradition of silk weaving continues. Telephone: Excellent shop selling silk giftware and tearoom.