What's On and Things To Do Around Pulborough

Hillside garden with beautiful views surrounded by mixed woodland. Focus on structure with a wide range of mature trees and shrubs. Stream, pond and bog area. Abundance of roses, clematis, hostas, rhododendrons and azaleas.

Country garden designed by Nigel Philips. Approached from a small lane, along an oak lined drive leading to the house and farm. The drive opens out to an enclosed courtyard with pleached hornbeam and yew. The herbaceous borders are filled with summer colours.

Follow in the footsteps of Elizabeth Ilive and become an inventor extraordinaire. Using clues around the Pleasure Grounds create an ingenious tool and claim your prize. Booking Not Needed. Suitable for children aged 5-11. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

Hear what life was like below stairs in the early 1800s as our costume team bring the Historic Kitchens to life carrying out daily tasks just as the servants would have done. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

With 10 gardens open, two for the first time, Shipley Open Gardens is back! Come and venture beyond the garden gate and enjoy gardens of every size and description, featuring colourful herbaceous borders, wildflower meadows and prolific vegetable patches.

Major garden in beautiful setting developed over 20 yrs with fruit theme and many unusual plants. Formally laid out on grand scale with long vistas; C18 walled garden with borders in apricot, orange, scarlet and crimson; topiary walk; pleached lime alle; tulip tree avenue; rose borders; large vegetable garden with...

Join our wetland herbalist Sheila Stenning for a gentle stroll down paved pathways to enjoy meadow views of summer wildflowers and herbs. Sheila introduces the traditional medicinal, dietary and domestic uses of wetland plants while you see them at their seasonal best.

Test out binoculars and scopes under actual field conditions with expert assistance with Keith with brands including Opticron, Swarovski, Nikon, Zeiss, Hawke, Vanguard & Delta. in focus accepts all major credit cards and part exchange is always considered. A portion of all sales goes towards WWT’s conservation work.

Wiston steam Rally is held each year on the second weekend of July at Wiston Park in West Sussex. The Rally has more then 1100 exhibits in attendance ranging from steam traction engines to vintage vehicles. Also large fun fair with traditional rides and side stands.

Southdowns Concert Band Present A CELEBRATION CONCERT, together with children from the Arundel C of E School. The band are celebrating 30 years of Musical Entertainment and will be performing some of their most popular music. Together with the Children singing, it will be a night to remember.

The knights, squires, and men at arms of Raven Tor Living History Group will meet in a medieval foot tournament representing four historical nations. Alongside the tournament, visitors can also enjoy storytelling, falconry, have-a-go archery for the over 8s as well as a host of medieval crafts.

This weekend will see a tournament of Norman foot combat held on the upper grounds of Arundel Castle. Along with a tented encampment, which will include a variety of crafts and demonstrations of the period, as well as a falconry display, have-a-go-archery for the over 8s and a storyteller to enthrall and excite...

Graffham, just south of Petworth, is this summer celebrating it’s third Festival of Art. With workshops, concerts, talks, poetry evening and more - there is something for everyone. The Open Studios art trail, running alongside Open Gardens is the centrepiece.

Cream Tea Voyages Sit back, relax and enjoy a delicious cream tea on our electric canal boat, Wiggonholt, whilst watching the beautiful countryside pass by. 90 minute trips depart at 2.15pm and 4.30pm. £14 per person.

Ploughman’s & Pimm’s Special Savour an evening trip on the canal whilst enjoying a glass of Pimm’s and a very special Ploughman’s Supper.

Cream Tea Voyages Sit back, relax and enjoy a delicious cream tea on our electric canal boat, Wiggonholt, whilst watching the beautiful countryside pass by. 90 minute trips depart at 2.15pm and 4.30pm. £14 per person.

This beautiful garden has been designed to create a paradise in which to entertain and relax in. A concentrated effort has been made by two talented owners to incorporate their own eye-catching woodland sculptures including ’Joey the war horse’, ’Wee Brodie’ our stag, and Athena the owl in...

Jay Millers Circus, celebrating 250years of family entertainment, returns after 5 years with an all new presentation for 2018. Its the show that all members of the family will enjoy.

A special evening with renowned horticulturist and popular broadcaster, Jim Buttress will take place on Friday 22 June at Loxwood Village Hall (Loxwood, West Sussex) to raise money for Perennial, the charity that helps horticulturists in need.

Join Parkinson’s UK on Sunday 8 July 2018 where we will be returning for this fantastic 4.5 mile sponsored Walk for Parkinson’s around beautiful Cowdray.

A stylish garden of textural contrasts and rich colour. The herbaceous beds are furnished with agapanthus, spiky eryngiums, salvias, alliums and fragrant lilies. A broad lawn is surrounded by borders with Japanese maples, rhododendrons, hydrangeas and specimen trees interspersed with ferns and grasses.

5 acres incl formal topiary, large prehistoric Ginkgo biloba, and magnificent Magnolia grandiflora around enchanting timber-framed Medieval house (not open for NGS).

COREFEST ALLSTARS 2018 Back by popular demand - and bigger and better than ever before - CoreFest 2018 is a FREE two-day independent music festival set in the heart of Hft Sussex’s beautiful orchards. DAY ONE: 2.

Brighton Consort (director James Dixon) will be presenting a programme of vocal music entitled “England in the Summer” on Saturday June 23rd (7.30 p.m.) in St Peter’s Church, Henfield.

CRAFT FAYRE FUN DAY come along with the kids for some face painting, princess appearances, colouring competition, craft ideas jewellery, toys, bags, wool, knitted items and much much more refreshments available