 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in the Walk Garden at Stanstad Park and today is an episode of Miniturellway Britain. I must say Stanstad, that is not to be confused with Stanstad Airport. We're somewhere completely different. We're down on the West Sussex-Hambelshire border area and we've come to this, it's a stately home. The actual house is over there, that building there, that's the roof of the chapel and as I said we're in the Walk Garden. We're going to find our way though, to the Miniturellway. It's really quite a nice place. You've got some really nice gardens here. Up there, there appears to be a tea room in the old greenhouses. There's a big garden centre with another tea room. It's that time of year, you know, when all the daffodils and all the flowers are out. So it all looks rather nice. I'm going to make my way through this maze of various walk gardens and we should find the railway. So mains, farm shop, etc. and this is the Stanstad maze. This isn't open today but if you're visiting, it's something else you can do. It costs £2.50 per person. It looks quite fun to find your way to the middle. We're not going to be able to do that today though. So we're going to walk through here. We are now coming into part of the garden centre. So you've got a garden centre there. There's a farm shop there and then around the corner you may have just heard the sound of a horn of a train. We should find a little railway station and I'm really excited about this because it's a railway I've never been to before. It's a railway I've been meaning to visit for a while. I did think about coming by train. The nearest railway station is Rowlands Castle on the Portsmouth Direct Line. The line runs down through Petersfield down towards Portsmouth. I didn't in the end because I realised it was going to be a two-mile walk from Rowlands Castle railway station but if you're feeling energetic it's not out the question to come here by train. And it did have also, it's a second hand bookshop and they were selling them at a reasonable price so I bought some quite interesting books but that's what we're going to do, railway. Let's go down here ahead I can see a little sign saying entrance. So that must be the railway station. So I'm going to go and buy my ticket or I'm going to go for a ride. It's a seven a quarter inch gauge railway. I think it's going to take us off around the Arboretum which will be quite nice so we'll get to see a bit more of the gardens of Stansted Park and then we'll have a ride, do a bit of line siding and then I'll maybe go for another bit of a walk. So here we are the entrance to the Stansted Park railway and we're going to buy my ticket. The train's quite close by so it's, you'll hurt your hands. If you're tempted to do the selfie thing the trees will win and break your phone so just be aware of that other than that enjoy. So that building there, that's the chamber. It seems the house isn't open on the same days as the railway. There might be some days where it won't open so just be aware so as much as I'd like to go to the house it's not open today. So maybe I'll come back and have a time and visit the house but today's visit was mainly out the railway. The estate is very very vast now if you look out that way I mean it goes on I say two miles that way is Rowlands Castle Station and there's a clearing through the trees it runs for two miles so if you were to come by train you'd be walking up there up and down there so like I say you could come by train get a train to Rowlands Castle. What a nice day but it's not so windy and colder today it's probably a good go closer and closer and then of course you can go over there there's two tea rooms here you've got a big shop it's um thank you very much for watching um please do feel free to like subscribe and comment and from Stanstead Park