Farley Mount

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Farley Mount is a hill and one of the highest points in Hampshire. It is located within Farley Mount Country Park, situated about four miles west of the historic city of Winchester, Hampshire. It is locally famous for being the subject of a folk song, 'On Farley Mount'. It featured the line oh on Farley Mount the clouds drift by, rustling the trees, on Farley mount I wonder why, what troubles you and I, blue is the sky and so are your eyes, oh left alone on Farley Mount. It is believed to date back to at least the sixteenth century and is still sung in pubs in the area. ()

Elevation: 571 ftCoordinates: 51°3'34"N, 1°25'33"W

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Farley Mount – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Royal Green Jackets Museum, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, The Rifles Museum, HorsePower: The Museum of the King's Royal Hussars.

4.6 miE
Museum, Military museum
Royal Green Jackets Museum, Winchester
117 min walk • The Royal Green Jackets Museum is situated at Peninsula Barracks in Winchester, England. The museum is one of several regimental museums that form part of Winchester's Military Museums.
3.7 miSW
Garden, Park
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey
94 min walk • The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens is an arboretum comprising 72 hectares accommodating over 42,000 trees and shrubs in about 12,000 taxa, notably a collection of oaks, camellia, magnolia and rhododendron.
4.5 miE
Museum, Military museum
The Rifles Museum, Winchester
116 min walk • The Rifles Museum is the regimental museum of The Rifles. It is located in Winchester in Hampshire, England and is part of Winchester's Military Museums.
4.6 miE
Museum, Military museum, History museum
HorsePower: The Museum of the King's Royal Hussars, Winchester
117 min walk • HorsePower: The Museum of the King's Royal Hussars is a military museum in Winchester, Hampshire, that is dedicated to documenting the King's Royal Hussars, a cavalry regiment of the British Army.
3.9 miNE
Archaeological site
Flowerdown Barrows, Winchester
100 min walk • Flowerdown Barrows is a Bronze Age Barrow site near Littleton, Winchester, Hampshire, England. It is a scheduled monument looked after by English Heritage.
3.6 miE
Theater
Blue Apple Theatre, Winchester
91 min walk • Blue Apple Theatre is a theatre company based in Winchester, England. It was founded in 2005 by Jane Jessop to support the inclusion of actors with intellectual disabilities on mainstream stages. In May 2012, six Blue Apple actors toured a re-imagining of William Shakespeare's Hamlet around the south of England.
4.5 miNW
Park
Houghton Lodge
114 min walk • Houghton Lodge is a Grade II* listed house on the River Test in Hampshire, England which was built in the 1790s, probably intended as a fishing lodge. The architect is more than likely John Plaw, a disciple of John Nash for the Barnard family. Houghton Lodge is England's finest surviving example of a Cottage Ornée.
4.5 miE
Park
Oram's Arbour, Winchester
115 min walk • Oram's Arbour was an enclosed settlement during the Iron Age, in what is now Winchester, England. Limited dating evidence suggests the enclosure was dug in the early-mid first century BC.
3.6 miNW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Testway
92 min walk • Testway is a 5-mile off-road cycle path in Hampshire, England. The path follows the route of the disused Sprat and Winkle Line between Stonymarsh and Stockbridge and runs in between the River Test and the A3057 road.
4.5 miE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Christ Church, Winchester
115 min walk • Christ Church, Winchester is a Church of England parish church in Winchester, England. It provides a variety of services and groups that meet regularly across all ages and stages of life. There are approximately 550 members. The vicar is Simon Cansdale and he is supported by multiple other clergy members.
2.6 miNW
Church
All Saints Church
66 min walk • All Saints' Church is a redundant Church of England parish church in the hamlet of Little Somborne, Hampshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building in the National Heritage List for England and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.