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This gentle, sociable and entertaining
day visits beautiful places has minimal
walking, includes morning coffee and
lunch at Heaven Farm and a guided
tour and cream tea in a beautiful
country house. So it is perfectly
possible for your members to enjoy
this day out without once putting their
hands in their pockets! That’s got to
be a winning combination for group
organisers looking for something
special to fill a coach for a memorable
day out.
Come and meet the tour guide on the
edge of the forest at Heaven Farm just
south of East Grinstead. Morning coffee
and biscuits, included in the tour fee, are
all laid out in the Old Stables ready for
your arrival at 10.30am.
During the morning sit back to enjoy the
Ashdown Forest Explorer. A massive
and ancient forest once covered much
of South East England but in Sussex
the mighty oaks were felled to fuel the
furnaces of the iron industry leaving the
wild heaths and moors that we see today.
We pass through the ancient market town
of East Grinstead, home of the World
War II Guinea Pig Club, where we see
the longest row of mediaeval houses in
the country. We’ll also drive through
the forest village of Hartfield which is
Winnie the Pooh country and then back
through the Chelwood Gate to Heaven
Farm for lunch, included in the tour
price. From October to Easter we’ll serve
steak and mushroom pie but during the
warmer summer months it’ll be a tasty
ploughman’s with local farm cheddar.
tea served in some style before heading
for home at 4.45pm.
In the afternoon we visit Saint Hill
Manor a beautiful 18
th
century country
house. This is far more intimate than a
stately home tour and there are no roped
off areas.
A succession of distinguished and
eclectic owners including the Maharajah
of Jaipur, an American Ambassador’s
wife and the science fiction writer and
founder of Scientology L Ron Hubbard,
have each left their stamp on this
interesting house.
A rather unusual feature of Saint Hill
Manor is a fascinating monkey mural,
filling a whole room and painted by a
nephew of Winston Churchill for the
wife of an American ambassador and it’s
here that we finish our day with a cream
Available weekdays throughout the
year (excluding 26 September to
15 November).
Adults & Seniors: £25.00
Coach Mileage: 20
18
Ashdown Forest Explorer
City & Village Tours: 0845 812 5000