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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.

Use the map below to explore your favourite area or the menu on the left to browse by activity.


News


17.12.08

IMAGINATIVE CHRISTMAS PRESENT IDEAS

 
 

Give a gift with a difference this Christmas and treat friends and family to a course
at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum


24.11.08

HUNDREDS OF LANTERNS BRIGHTEN A WINTER AFTERNOON

Tree Dressing Event at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Sunday 7 December The annual Tree Dressing event at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex, is a fascinating and unusual celebration for all the family of the life-giving properties of trees. The day’s finale as darkness falls is a wonderful procession and spiral dance around two magnificent aspen trees, which are dressed with hundreds of lanterns made during the afternoon.


20.11.08

Journalists honour Hickstead founder Douglas Bunn

 
 

Douglas Bunn, master of Hickstead, was today (Thursday) awarded the Liz Dudden Trophy by the British Equestrian Writers Association (BEWA). The award was made at the Association's annual lunch, held this year at the Queen's Club, London.

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