Heathrow Airport 36 min
Frensham Great Pond (31 min) Compact lake popular for sailing, fishing & warm-weather swimming, with a beach & a cafe. Festival Place (10 min) Basing House (7 min) Museum in a large, 16th-century Tudor castle, with historical info, community events & guided tours. 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. West Green House Garden (12 min) Garden and opera Alice Holt Forest (29 min) Many Royal Navy ships were built with wood from this forest with cycle hire facilities & a cafe. Chawton House (26 min) Elizabethan manor & gardens once owned by Jane Austen’s brother, with exhibits on women’s writing. Wellington Country Park (16 min) Trails, kids' area and mini railway in parkland with a petting barn and crazy golf course. National Trust - The Vyne (16 min) Country house with a stained glass chapel, an ornamental lake and a walled kitchen garden. Milestones Museum (14 min) Interactive, undercover family attraction recreating street scenes with vehicles, shops and homes. Birdworld (26 min) Daily events including penguin feeding and animal encounters plus a safari train in a 26-acre park. Basingstoke Aquadrome (12 min) Water park Odiham Castle (9 min) Remains of a castle built between 1207 & 1214, later used as a royal hunting lodge. Jane Austen's House (24 min) Preserved home where Jane Austen spent the last 8 years of her writing and domestic life. |