UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

We booked this lovely bed & breakfast guest house near Slindon, west Sussex, for three nights and found we shared it with two cats, two dogs, four chickens and a family of rabbits!  There were three good pubs for evening meals within a 20 minute walk, wey hey - this is ideal!

Belinda, sporting her new short hair do, on the sunny patio with William after breakfast on the first morning of our short break.
 

Here's Mike looking around an exhibit at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester in Sussex, on our first day.

This is the Downland Gridshell, a workshop and store for the museum.  Unfortunately we were way too early for the 1.30pm tour and demonstration.
 

As we wandered through the grounds, we came across this family of piglets with Mum.  Mike lost count of the number of 'ahhs' Belinda said!  We walked for ages along the tracks at the museum.

Demonstrators at the Weald & Downland Museum are leading a sleigh pulling horse here, we couldn't quite work out what the purpose was, especially as there was no snow in sight on this warm Spring day.
 

More "ahhs" here with the newly born lambs in this field, with Bayleaf Farmstead in the background, one of almost 50 conserved old buildings at the Weald & Downland Museum.

Belinda's seen here sampling the produce made by these demonstrators in one of the many historic buildings dating from the 13th - 19th century, all rescued from destruction and rebuilt.
 

Here's Belinda climbing the stairs in one of the ancient buildings.  We certainly got a lot of exercise on our visit to the Open Air Museum!

This reconstructed school was originally from West Wittering, Sussex and was in use prior to 1851.  And no, Mike doesn't remember it well!
 

And finally we reach the Market Square, complete with its Market Hall and medieval shops.  This is the main area at Weald & Downland Open Air Museum in Sussex.

Plumbing, building and carpentry were all trades demonstrated with either static displays or live demonstrations.  See our UK tourist links for the museum website.
 

What's this?  Mike's trying the hands-on activities by having a go at building something with bricks!  Reminds him of his childhood Lego!

The Watermill is a working mill from the 17th century that produces stone ground flour used in the museum café.  Entrance to Weald & Downland cost £8.
 

We brought some animal feed at the Mill and Belinda's seen here feeding the ducks on the pond, with the wind pump in the background, and, if you look carefully, a water skiing duck.

Earlier on we mentioned the pubs nearby to our guest house.  This is 'The Holly Tree' at Walberton where we enjoyed an excellent yummy meal on the Saturday evening.
On the next page we visit Arundel Castle.