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Jan 15, 2020 · Meanwhile Farnborough's French connection is hidden in the town centre. Beyond high gates lies a small farm maintained by a Benedictine community, a flamboyant chapel decorated with 100 gargoyles and the Imperial crypt where Napoleon III, Empress Eugénie and their son, the Imperial Prince, are interred.
Farnborough is a town located in the Rushmoor district of Hampshire, England. It has a population of around 57,486 as of the 2011 census [ 2 ] and is an important centre of aviation, engineering and technology.
Jul 17, 2018 · Positioned in Hampshire’s north-eastern corner, jostling right up against posh Surrey, Farnborough succeeds in achieving a good lifestyle balance with great access to both urban amenities and green space. London escapees certainly get far more property for their pound.
Farnborough is something of a ghost town after dark, despite the cinema and great restaurant selection bringing in extra evening footfall. Visitors looking for proper nightlife are advised to head into London .
- Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum
- St Michael’s Abbey
- Rae Heritage Quarter
- Basingstoke Canal
- Frimley Lodge Park
- Museum of Military Medicine
- Fleet Pond
- Royal Logistics Corps Museum
- Aldershot Military Museum
- Queen Elizabeth Park
The “FAST” Museum is only open on weekends and Bank Holidays, but is still obligatory if you’re interested in aviation history. This is all down to the pedigree of a site where the first high-altitude “space suits”, night vision aids, carbon fibre frames, airborne cameras and a wealth of other innovations were developed. Even the building is a muse...
After the fall of the French Second Empire Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie fled France and ended up in Chislehurst, Kent, where Napoleon died in 1873. The grief-stricken Eugénie commissioned a Benedictine abbey and mausoleum for him in Farnborough, and this was completed in 1881. Tours of the Flamboyant Gothic abbey take place on Saturdays at 15:0...
The idea of exploring a business park may not like a lot of fun, but there’s exciting history in the RAE Heritage Quarter by Farnborough Airport. You could make a whirlwind visit after the Air Sciences Trust Museum. From the very beginning of the 20th century this was the setting for the Royal Aircraft Factory, and a few listed buildings go back to...
The Basingstoke Canal and its shaded towpath curves through Farnborough to the east. This 31-mile waterway was completed in 1794, linking the Thames to the town of Basingstoke. Although the canal was never a commercial success and became disused after the Second World War, it has proved very popular with pleasure boaters since it reopened in 1991. ...
This 60-acre canal-side park was saved from developers in the late-1980s and is a popular local amenity, winning the Green Flag award every year for its upkeep and facilities. Along with sports pitches for football and rugby, there’s a pitch and putt golf course, a fitness trail, wildflower meadow, wildlife pond, a community garden, two children’s ...
Keogh Barracks, just over the county boundary in Surrey, has a strong military medicine museum with more than 20,000 objects in its collection. One enthralling exhibit is the carriage used by Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, modified to hold stretchers. Also essential are field surgery kits from different eras, a box of dental tools used by Napo...
One stop away on the train is the largest freshwater lake in Hampshire. Despite encompassing more than 50 acres, the lake is exceptionally shallow, with a maximum depth of little more than 80 centimetres. Around the water are marshes, reed beds, woodland (oak and Scots pine)and heathland, all safeguarded by a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Th...
The feast of military museums continues at this attraction open Monday to Friday, ten minutes away in Deepcut. This museums tells you how British Army soldiers have been supplied with equipment, fed, transported and kept in touch with loved ones over the last six centuries. You’ll learn about how the army requisitioned carts in Medieval times and l...
Housed in late-Victorian barrack buildings, this museum tells the story of the British Army in Aldershot, but is also a local history museum with exhibitions on civilian life in both Aldershot and Farnborough. You’ll find how the military camp developed in Aldershot after 1854 and see reconstructions of barrack rooms from the Victorian period and t...
There was a time when this 24-acre parcel of woods and meadows close to St Michael’s Abbey was part of the Royal Windsor Great Park. Later it belonged to the Farnborough Hill Estate, where Empress Eugénie spent the last 40 years of her life from 1880. Not long after she died the house was taken over by Farnborough hill school, which remains there t...
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The town is fairly unremarkable except for the flamboyant French Gothic St Michael's Abbey, built in 1881 by the Empress Eugénie de Montijo, wife Of Napoleon III. Napoleon, Eugenie and their son, the Prince Imperial, are buried in the abbey crypt.
