What's good to see near farnborough ?

[Simonesignoret]

We are house and dog sitting for relatives who live there. We'll be there a week and do not know the area at all. Kidfree, own transport. Love walking, pottering in bookshops and antiques shops, visiting
NT/English heritage places, nice food and decent pubs, just soaking in archetypal english countryside and
market towns that we really don't have up here. Prepared to travel an hour or two. Any suggestions ? We thought RHS Wisley and Kew gardens (Dp is a gardener !) Winchester, Chichester, Worthing ?

Ps. going in June so hopefully decent weather !

Guildford is nice, Winchester is lovely, Windsor (the great park/ Saville Gardens/ Virginia Water all lovely for walking plus of course the town and the castle). From Farnborough London is really accessible (40 minutes on the train straight into Waterloo). Polesden Lacey, Painshill Park, Frensham Ponds.
There's a really lovely little aircraft museum in Farnborough itself (airsciences.org.uk/) if that floats your boat, Brooklands Museum is lovely as well. It's also worth looking to see if St Michaels Abbey is doing tours when you're visiting farnboroughabbey.org/

If you like walking you're spoilt for choice locally, Frensham Ponds big & little, Alice Holt Forest, Devils Punchbowl. You have Farnham Castle, Waverley Abbey, as well as a multitude of National Trust Properties. I can recommend Fancy Free Walks website for walking. You can't beat a good walk with lunch at a pub, cafe or garden centre.

Selborne not far away has Gilbert White's house and museum, a pottery, hilly walks (trail maintained by NT), nice pub.

Odiham (near Hook) is Georgian, has a pretty high street, nice pubs, walks to St John's Castle and Basingstoke Canal.

The Watercress Line heritage railway runs from Alton.

Farnham is probably your archetypal market town though I don't know it well.

Alresford is lovely to walk around
Jane Austen’s house nearby too

Caesars camp above Farnham/Aldershot is good for a walk if you want something nearby, lovely views from the viewpoint. Fairly hilly and watch out for adders, apparently common up there although I’ve never seen one.

Foresters pub in Church Crookham is great, really friendly and good food, backs on to a beautiful bit of heathland and you can link in a section of Basingstoke canal as it passes nearby.

Both these are only 10 mins away.

Seems like we will be spoilt for choice. Thanks for the suggestions ! I guess we'll be dictated to by the dogs most days (will be 2 of them - ours and theirs unless we decide to put ours in our dog sitters )...