| there's also a down-to-earth, traditional restaurant/bar with a fireplace, as well as a terrace, and a garden with a kids' playground. regular big-screen sports and live entertainment are offered. . parking is free. warmly decorated rooms offer complimentary wi-fi, flat-screen tvs, and ipod docks, plus tea and coffeemaking facilities. backing onto fields at the edge of a rural village, this relaxed pub with rooms is 3 miles from the ruins of odiham castle, and 8 miles from both basingstoke and the jane austen's house museum. continental breakfast is available (fee). all have en suite bathrooms; some feature exposed brick or wood-panelled walls
Heathrow Airport 40 min
Odiham Castle (8 min)
Remains of a castle built between 1207 & 1214, later used as a royal hunting lodge. Chawton House (16 min)
Elizabethan manor & gardens once owned by Jane Austen’s brother, with exhibits on women’s writing. Birdworld (21 min)
Daily events including penguin feeding and animal encounters plus a safari train in a 26-acre park. Festival Place (16 min) Basingstoke Aquadrome (19 min)
Water park National Trust - The Vyne (23 min)
Country house with a stained glass chapel, an ornamental lake and a walled kitchen garden. Wellington Country Park (22 min)
Trails, kids' area and mini railway in parkland with a petting barn and crazy golf course. Waverley Abbey (32 min)
Remains of vaults, columns & walls of an 1128 Cistercian abbey also used as a movie set. Farnham Castle (18 min)
Former home of bishops & royalty, with a stately castle & medieval keep ruins, popular for events. Jane Austen's House (13 min)
Preserved home where Jane Austen spent the last 8 years of her writing and domestic life. Milestones Museum (21 min)
Interactive, undercover family attraction recreating street scenes with vehicles, shops and homes. Alice Holt Forest (22 min)
Many Royal Navy ships were built with wood from this forest with cycle hire facilities & a cafe. The Sculpture Park (33 min)
Up to 600 sculptures in an arboretum and wildlife water garden setting with meandering footpaths. Basing House (16 min)
Museum in a large, 16th-century Tudor castle, with historical info, community events & guided tours. Frensham Great Pond (30 min)
Compact lake popular for sailing, fishing & warm-weather swimming, with a beach & a cafe. | 
