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Welcome to Rural Ways

Rural Ways is your online gateway to the countryside. We have hundreds of walking, cycling and horse-riding routes for you to explore, as well as, a whole host of information to help you and your family enjoy the South East's rich rural landscape.

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News


16.06.08

PERIOD MUSIC IN A BEAUTIFUL HISTORIC SETTING

The beautiful downland setting of England’s leading museum of historic buildings will provide a fitting backdrop to the peaceful strains of period music on Sunday 6 July. The ever-popular Early Music Afternoon returns to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex, and involves groups of musicians performing in and around the Museum’s historic buildings


01.06.08

A WONDERFUL GATHERING OF THE RAREST OF FARM ANIMALS

Rare and Traditional Breeds Show: Sunday 20 July, Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

Four legs, furry legs, fluffy legs, feathered legs…come and get up close to over 500 cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and poultry at the Rare and Traditional Breeds Show this summer at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex. This delightful annual agricultural show for rare and traditional breeds of farm animals takes place on Sunday 20 July, is one of the biggest and most popular shows of its kind in the South East.


14.05.08

Last chance for Kent’s rare woodland butterflies & moths...

 
 

Volunteers are out this week looking for some of Britain’s rarest butterflies and moths, as Butterfly Conservation launches a three-year campaign to transform South East England’s dark, overgrown woodlands into lighter, sunnier places full of butterflies.


Duke of Burgundy, photo by Steve McCarthy

Rural Ways is a collaborative project undertaken on behalf of the Rural Ways Partnership. The site is funded by Tourism South East, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Government Office for the South East (GOSE)'s Strategy for Sustainable Food and Farming and the Countryside Agency's Landscape, Access and Recreation division.

About the Rural Ways project and the Rural Ways Partnership.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs The Government Office for the South East (GOSE)'s Strategy for Sustainable Food and Farming The Countryside Agency's Landscape, Access and Recreation Tourism South East