Part of the Creative Footsteps Festival
Wednesday 6th October
11am-1pm
Join Gilbert White’s House & Garden’s director Steve Green for a walk around Gilbert White’s Selborne. In the year 1766 Gilbert White made a year long study of the Flora of the village in his Flora Selborniensis, Steve will point out during the walk the sites of Gilbert White’s findings and point out the amazing flora and fungi’s that can be found in Selborne today.
Between 2 and 10 October the area’s first Nature and Literary Festival will celebrate local literary greats and their love of the East Hampshire countryside. Follow in the footsteps of author Jane Austen, our first ecologist and naturalist Gilbert White, the wartime poet Edward Thomas and more. You can enjoy short guided nature walks, writing and poetry workshops, garden tours, trails, Yoga and more.