Oakwood Glamping

The pretty port city of Portsmouth (25 minutes’ drive) will provide some excellent entertainment. The historic dockyard is the centre of the action. It has a navy museum and a range of impressive historic ships, including the HMS Victory war ship and a Tudor boat. Other places take a look at different parts of history too. For example, the Weald & Downland Living Museum (15 minutes) has a collection of farmsteads which bring back all the atmosphere of life back between 1300 and 1910. There’s yet another Roman site nearby too, the Fishbourne Roman Palace (five minutes). This site runs Roman activity workshops based in an excavated Roman villa with old mosaics. A little of the Edwardian or Victorian times too, perhaps? West Dean Gardens (15 minutes) has features like pergola from the Edwardian era and Victorian glasshouses. So, ogle as much as you want to.