The Grange Festival
Three operas including La Boheme, Eugene Onegin and Handel's Giulio Cesare are performed across 26 summer nights in the neo-classical Grange at Northington, a Hampshire country house of exceptional theatrical beauty.
Northington is a tiny, almost entirely residential farming hamlet whose one reason to make a journey is The Woolpack Inn and its AA-rosette kitchen, set against the extraordinary backdrop of The Grange, England's finest Greek Revival ruin and a genuine piece of national heritage.
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"Gateway Square on the last Saturday of the month. New Forest produce, familiar faces, and no particular reason to rush home."
Ringwood Farmers Market
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