The Weald and Downland Living Museum at Singleton, six miles north of Chichester, is a 40-acre open-air museum of rescued historic buildings from across south-east England. Over 50 timber-framed houses, mills, barns, schools, and workshops — some dating from the thirteenth century — have been dismantled from sites under threat and rebuilt in a wooded valley in the South Downs.
The buildings are furnished and inhabited by costumed interpreters; a working watermill grinds flour, a Tudor kitchen turns out lunch, and the heavy horses pull the plough on weekends. A full day is easy to fill, particularly in autumn or winter when the chimneys smoke.