Weald & Downland Museum

 On a brisk and cool, yet surprisingly light October day we decided to head to the Weald and Downland museum. Its one of these fantastic open air museums (Some of you may be more familiar with the terms Ethnographic or living villages). It's a museum where buildings of importance as saved, taken apart bit by bit, then re-assembled here at the museum. Many of these buildings were saved from demolition in their original sites, and the Weal and Downland museum has buildings that are hundreds of years old, with all different purposes and from different areas in the South of England.

Entry tickets cost £17.50, although there is a small discount if you pre-book through the website: https://www.wealddown.co.uk

Don't worry, there is plenty of feathered friends to meet and feed when you're there!

British TV viewers may recognise this barn, as the one from the show The Repair Shop, in which people bring along old broken possessions and a team of experts restore them. It's my nan's favourite show, so that tells you all you need to know about it!

This beautiful building is the Market Hall from Titchfield. You may remember a post recently about my visit to the abbey there. Its a stunning building, with these beautiful timbers and charming herringbone style brickwork. It's just as charming inside too! It was rebuilt in the museum in 1974, and serves as the star attraction for the museum.

The museum also has lots of friendly and knowledgeable staff who can provide you with more information about the buildings, and apparently on busy days there is people in costume and craft working to show you how things we done in years gone by.

I love this little alleyway, the red beams pointing you down towards the interesting brick building at the end, with it's charming chimney.

We went on a Saturday, there was a fair few people about, but with the site being so big, you rarely bumped into anyone there. I know that there's a lot of school trips in the week too, but same again, I doubt you would bump into many of them!

It's well worth a visit, and if you needed any more convincing, there is a very nice café there with a great selection of sweet treats!