Amberley
A village of thatched cottages beneath the South Downs, with an open-air industrial museum beside its station and the Arun valley's Wild Brooks wetland on its doorstep.
From King's Cross St Pancras: 2 h 7 min by train · 2 h 28 min by car
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Quick facts
Amberley Museum is a 36-acre open-air site beside the station where you can ride a narrow-gauge railway and a historic bus, and watch craftspeople such as a blacksmith, broom-maker and potter at work.
Bignor Roman Villa, a few miles away, has mosaic floors described as among the finest in Britain, including a Medusa head and a corridor mosaic about 24 metres long.
Amberley Wild Brooks, a wetland of around 800 acres in the Arun valley, is nationally important for wintering birds such as teal, shoveler and Bewick's swan.
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