STONEHENGE Stonehenge is one of Britain's greatest pre-historic monuments and a world heritage site. Stonehenge is the only stone circle in the world with horizontal lintels across the top of the stones. It attracts thousands of visitors each year. Link - http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/stonehenge Link - http://www.stonehenge.co.uk NATIONAL MOTOR MUSEUM Is a unique collection of over 250 cars, motorbikes, commercial vehicles, motoring eccentricities and memorabilia. World record breakers, Golden Arrow and Bluebird are among the collection. The museum is at Beaulieu and a combined visit to Beaulieu Abbey and Palace House would make an interesting and entertaining day out. Link - http://www.beaulieu.co.uk Link - http://www.musicatbeaulieu.org Link - http://www.newforest-online.co.uk/beaulieu.asp MOTTISFONT ABBEY Mottisfont Abbey is a 12th-century Augustinian priory, with sweeping lawns and magnificent old trees, set amidst glorious countryside. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was converted into a private house. The abbey contains a drawing room, decorated by Rex Whistler and Derek Hill's 20th-century picture collection. Undoubtedly, Mottisfont's key attraction is the grounds with their magnificent trees, walled gardens and the National Collection of over 300 varieties of old-fashioned roses. Link - http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/places/mottisfontabbey Link - http://www.aboutbritain.com/MottisfontAbbey.htm Link - http://www.visitwinchester.co.uk/site/things-to-do/p_179681 BROADLANDS One of the finest examples of mid-Georgian architecture in England, Broadlands stands serenely in a unique place in British history. Its distinguished owners and many of its important visitors have helped to shape the course of history. It was the country house of the great Victorian Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston. The present owner, Lord Romsey, inherited the estate from his grandfather, Lord Louis Mountbatten when he was killed by an IRA bomb in 1979. The house was largely rebuilt by Lancelot `Capability' Brown in the 18th century. Link - http://www.broadlands.net CHAWTON Chawton House, the grade ll* listed Elizabethan manor house that once belonged to Jane Austen's brother and 275 acres of land, has been restored as part of a major international project to establish the new Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing, 1600 - 1830. It houses a magnificent collection of over 9,000 volumes, together with some related manuscripts, allowing visitors to see the relationship between the library, the house, the estate and a working farm of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Link - http://www.hants.gov.uk/austen/chawton.html Link - http://www.chawton.org HIGHER BROCKHAMPTON Birthplace of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in this small cob and thatch cottage and from here he would walk to school every day in Dorchester, six miles away. It was built by his great-grandfather and is little altered since. The interior has been furnished by the NT (see also Max Gate). His early novels Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd were written here. It has a charming cottage garden. Link - http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/nthandbook.dll?ACTION=PROPERTY&PROPERTYID=296