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Farnham will surprise you. Just an hour's drive from London, Farnham is a beautiful country town with some of the finest Georgian architecture in the south with a parish church and castle dating back to the 12th Century. Farnham has a wealth of tempting opportunities for shopping, eating out, sightseeing or just sitting in gardens and flower filled yards.
 Looking down Castle Street
The town boasts further cultural organisations including the Farnham Maltings, Foyer and James Hockey Galleries at the University College for the Creative Arts and the Crafts Study Centre all of whom are committed to promoting Farnham as a creative community. Together our presence, as a thriving and vigorous set of creative organisations working in Farnham benefits the town artistically, socially and economically.
Farnham Maltings is a collection of buildings set in the heart of Farnham that provides a place in which people can imagine, create and discover. The Maltings encourages people to make their own art work, supports the establishing of new creative businesses and presents a programme of film, music, exhibitions and festivals.
Farnham Maltings is also home to Third Space, a new producing company for the South East of England supported by the Arts Council of England dedicated to making surprising, thoughtful and delightful new work for the regions villages and market towns.
Bridge Square Farnham, GU9 7QR, 01252 726 234
info@farnhammaltings.com, www.farnhammaltings.com
The Crafts Study Centre is a major museum, specialising in an unrivalled collection of 20th century and contemporary British crafts. The Tanner Gallery presents work from the Centre’s collections of ceramics, textiles, calligraphy and furniture, from the pioneer makers such as Bernard Leach and Ethel Mairet, through to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Takeshi Yasuda and Ewan Clayton. The temporary exhibition gallery hosts new exhibitions by major contemporary craft practitioners.
UCCA at Farnham, Falkner Road, Farnham GU9 7DS, 01252 891 450
craftscentre@surrart.ac.uk, www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk
Open: Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm
Admission free
Foyer & James Hockey Galleries are public exhibition spaces integral to the University College for the Creative Arts. Within the framework of Higher Education research and professional management, the exhibitions aim to enrich and engage an increasingly inclusive society, and recognise the multicultural contribution of the arts. The presentation of work by schoolchildren, students, and amateurs from the community is balanced with projects showcasing arts professionals and specialists with a national and international reputation.
UCCA at Farnham, Falkner Road, Farnham GU9 7DS, 01252 892 646
galleries@ucreative.ac.uk, www.ucreative.ac.uk/galleries
Open Monday to Friday 10am-5pm Saturday 10am–4pm
Admission free
Surrounding Area
Farnham is an ideal centre for exploring the surrounding countryside with it gentle hills, rivers, leafy lanes, historic buildings and picturesque villages. Farnham is also well situated as a centre from which to visit many places; Windsor, Winchester, Portsmouth to mention just three with historic connections. The sea is only an hour’s car ride away.
Farnham is part of the Surrey hills which offers some of South East Englands most beautiful and accessible countryside. Famous beauty spots include Box Hill, Leith Hill and Devil’s Punch Bowl. This special corner of England has lots to offer you from breathtaking countryside to imposing stately homes such as Clandon Park, picturesque gardens and contemporary art galleries.
Clandon Park
Explore the area further and you will soon discover why surrey hills is an area of outstanding natural beauty. Shaped by the Downs to the north and the Greensand Hills and Weald clay to the south it is an area of contrast and variety. The area gave the world the remarkable partnership of Sir Edwin Lutyens, architect, and Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer; and is where the Arts and Crafts movement flourished.
Further afield
West Dean College and Gardens is a unique community, a creative and rich mélange of craftspeople and artists, conservators and restorers, working alongside farmers, foresters, builders and gardeners. West Dean College is run by the Edward James Foundation, a charitable trust based in a fine country house with an estate encompassing park and gardens, an arboretum, farms, forestry and a nature reserve.
Goodwood Sculpture Park, the home of twenty-first century British sculpture, boasts 26 acres of woodland in an area of outstanding natural beauty containing over 60 large-scale sculptures.
For information about further places to visit within the region why not look at Visit Britain at www.visitbritain.com. |
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Farnham Maltings
Craft study centre
James Hockey Gallery |
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