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The Chichester Ship Canal
Visitors can enjoy boat trips, angling, canoeing, walking, rowing
and the wildlife. A 50-seater Tripboat is available for lunches,
dinners, tea cruises and special events. Tel: 01243 771363
Chichester Harbour Conservancy
Trips are available aboard a solar powered catamaran from Itchenor
and Emsworth to enjoy and learn about the Chichester Harbour area
of outstanding natural beauty. www.conservancy.co.uk
Tel: 01243 513275
Chichester Harbour Water Tours
 The
guided tours start from Itchenor aboard Wingate III, a passenger
boat carrying 52 people with covered accommodation. The harbour
has a 48 mile shoreline with a wide variety of habitats, all providing
a refuge for seabirds and other wildlife. The villages of Bosham,
Dell Quay and Itchenor are part of the harbour scene.
For a trip or private charter contact: Adam & Angela Shaw
12 The Parade, East Wittering, PO20 8BN
www.chichesterharbourwatertours.co.uk
Tel: 01243 670504
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
 ‘A
fascinating collection of 45 rescued historic buildings set in beautiful
parkland in the South Downs’
England’s leading museum of historic buildings and traditional
rural life occupies 50 acres of the South Downs. Shire horses work,
woolly-faced sheep chew the downland grass, hens and geese pecking
in the straw and Tamworth pigs snuffle in the woods.
There are working demonstrations of rural trades and crafts and
an example of a medieval farmstead and Tudor kitchen can be visited.
Visitors can relax in the lakeside café or simply take a
picnic and enjoy the company of the hungry ducks!
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Chichester, PO18
0EU
www.wealddown.co.uk
Tel: 01243 811348
Mechanical Music & Doll Collection
Housed in a former Victorian church, this collection of mechanical
musical instruments includes polyphons, organettes, barrel-organs,
barrel-pianos, orchestrions and fair organs, all restored and played
to visitors during guided tours. Also, over a hundred Victorian
and Edwardian dolls are on display.
Open June - September, Wednesdays only 1pm - 4pm
Church Road, Portfield, Chichester, PO19 7HN
www.sussexmuseums.co.uk
Tel: 01243 372646
Pallant House Gallery
 Pallant
House Gallery is a unique combination of a Queen Anne townhouse
and a contemporary building holding one of the best collections
of 20th century British art outside London.
An extensive exhibition programme includes inter-national touring
exhibitions and print room shows as well as changing displays from
the collection. Themed guided tours are available as well as talks
and events.
New facilities include an art reference library, a studio for workshops,
conservation and artists in residence, a designated room for showing
works on paper and a courtyard garden by the award winning Christopher
Bradley-Hole. 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ
www.pallant.org.uk
Tel: 01243 774557
Chichester District Museum
Housed in an 18th Century corn store, Chichester District Museum
is the place to come and find out about the local history, geology
and archaeology of Chichester and the surrounding district. The
Museum provides exhibitions and events, walks and talks, education
and outreach, history and archaeology enquiries, artefact identification
and a Museum shop. 29 Little London, Chichester, PO19 1PB
www.chichester.gov.uk/museum
Tel: 01243 784683
The South Downs Planetarium and Science
Centre
 An
exciting and stimulating way to learn more about the Universe in
which we live….
The planetarium can show you the stars at any time of the day using
a star projector. It will project nearly 4,500 stars onto the domed
ceiling of the star theatre. Visitors can view the night sky in
comfort, without interference from clouds or bright lights.
With the star projector, slides, videos, DVDs, music and a lively
commentary, the planetarium allows one to explore the Universe by
entering worlds beyond our own. The presentations are in a dark
theatre to give the desired effect, so arrival must be 15 minutes
before the start of each presentation to allow ones eyes to adjust
to the dark. Latecomers are not allowed to enter.
For more information and presentation times contact:
South Downs Planetarium & Science Centre
Sir Patrick Moore Building, Kingsham Farm, Kingsham Road, Chichester
PO19 8RP Tel: 01243 774400 All space pictures courtesy of NASA Ticketline:
07818 297292 www.southdowns.org.uk
Fishbourne Roman Palace & Gardens
 In
1960 a mechanical digger cut through massive wall foundations in
a field in Fishbourne village. This led to the discovery of the
remains of the largest domestic Roman building yet found in Britain.
Amazingly, it still contained many mosaic floors, some almost complete.
The remains of the north wing of the building were so spectacular
that a protective building was erected over them and the site was
opened to the public. Visitors can walk around part of the North
Wing and enjoy the remarkable mosaic floors, including the famous
Cupid on a Dolphin. A museum displays a wide range of Roman objects
found during the excavations on the site. These include the sculpted
marble head of the possible one-time owner of the palace, King Togidubnus,
and a beautiful onyx cameo carved with an image of a racehorse.
Fishbourne Roman Palace, Salthill Road, Fishbourne, Chichester,
PO19 3QR
www.sussexpast.co.uk
Tel: 01243 785859
Cass Sculpture Foundation
 A
new foundation has given a much larger audience access to the unique
and rapidly growing educational archive charting the development
of twenty-first century British sculpture. There are 70 specially
commissioned, monumental sculptures sited in an idyllic landscape
at Goodwood near Chichester. All the sculptures are for sale.
Goodwood, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0QP
Tel: 01243 538449 Fax: 01243 531853
E-mail: info@sculpture.org.uk
The Goodwood Estate
In 1697, Charles Lennox, first Duke of Richmond, son of Charles
II, bought a hunting lodge called Goodwood and so began an association
with Chichester which has continued to this day. Over the years,
the Dukes of Richmond have served as Mayors of the City, have been
benefactors, notably by the gift of Priory Park, and patrons of
many societies and organizations. Even today, this involvement of
the Lennox family in the well being of the city continues.
Goodwood House The present Goodwood House is a
flint-faced Regency building set in the heart of the Goodwood Estate.
Its unassuming exterior hides a suite of magnificent staterooms
containing an outstanding collection of furniture, porcelain, paintings
and tapestries. The house is open to the public, and is also available,
in part, for private events and weddings.
Goodwood Race Course With its setting in the beautiful
Sussex Downs, Goodwood Race course is considered by many to be the
most beautiful racecourse in Britain, some say in the world. The
racecourse was a popular venue with Edward VII, and since then the
Goodwood Festival Meeting in August, known as ‘Glorious Goodwood’,
has been a highlight of the racing and social season. In recent
years there has been continuing development of facilities to match
its incomparable setting.
Goodwood Festival of Speed In the nineteen thirties,
Goodwood hosted a motor racing track, but the development of modern
day Formula One racing cars made the track unsafe. However, the
Earl of March, heir to the Duke, created the Festival of Speed,
a celebration of motor sport and car culture. For three days in
early July, drivers and cars arrive from all over the world to take
part in the festival. So popular is the event that entry is by advance
ticket only.
Goodwood Revival Meeting A three-day festival of
nostalgia usually in September, when the early days of motor racing
are celebrated and carefully restored cars are brought together
to recapture the spirit and glamour of an earlier era – even
the spectators dress in period. Again, the popularity of the event
means entry is by advanced ticket only.
Goodwood Estate Co.Ltd, Goodwood House, Goodwood, Chichester, West
Sussex, PO18 0PX
www.goodwood.co.uk
Tel: 01243 755000
Amberley Working Museum
Set in a disused chalk pit in the heart of the South Downs, the
Amberley Working Museum is an open-air site dedicated to the industrial
heritage of the Southeast. There is an extensive range of working
exhibits, many under cover, with crafts-people giving demonstrations
of traditional skills. Transportation round the site is by vintage
bus or narrow gauge railway. There is a restaurant and several picnic
areas and a children’s playground.
Amberley Working Museum, Amberley, Nr Arundel, BN18 9LT
www.amberleymuseum.co.uk
Tel: 01798 831831
Tangmere Military Aviation Museum
Sited three miles from Chichester, the museum tells the story of
this Battle of Britain airfield from its origins in 1916 to its
closure in 1970. There are displays of aircraft, recreated operation
rooms and interactive displays. On site visitors can use the café
and picnic area.
Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Tangmere, PO20 2ES
www.tangmere-museum.org.uk
Tel: 01243 790090
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