Holden Farm Camping

Holden Farm Camping is on the South Downs Way, on its 100-mile route from Winchester to Eastbourne. Its local stretch runs from the farm to Winchester via Chilcomb and Cheesefoot Head, home of three bowl barrows and also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (crop circles crop up occasionally at Cheesefoot Head too, so keep an eye out if you're passing). Seven miles from the farm is the market town of Alresford, reachable by foot if you fancy a hike. As well as shops and tearooms, it has the National Plant Collection of Snowdrops in its Brandy Mount House, and the handsome and half-timbered Fulling Mill, just out of town along the river path. Alresford is also the terminus for the 10-mile vintage railway Watercress Line, along to the valley town of Alton. Other fave local spots of the Holden Farm crew include Marwell Zoo, Avington Park, the National Trust stately home of Hinton Ampner and the Jane Austen Literary Walk, a four and a half mile route from Chawton where she lived for the eight years before her death. Also have a day in Hampshire capital Winchester, to see its cathedral, city museum and the Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium.