# Heckfield Place: Soil first

- URL : https://www.inexpeditions.com/en/places/la-terre-d-abord
- Language : English
- Publisher : in:Expeditions SAS, 8 rue Lacépède, 75005 Paris, bonjour@inexpeditions.com
- Place : Heckfield Place, Heckfield, Hampshire, GB (https://www.heckfieldplace.com/)

> In Hampshire, just over an hour from London, a Georgian house from the 1760s, set to follow the path of the sun, has been restored and woven back into 438…

Soil first

## Heckfield Place

heckfieldplace.com

In Hampshire, just over an hour from London, a Georgian house from the 1760s, set to follow the path of the sun, has been restored and woven back into 438 acres of woodland, meadow and lakes. Its rule: everything begins with the soil, and the table serves first what the estate grows.

The Home Farm, set up in the mid-19th century to feed the house, has taken that role back: Guernsey cows, a dairy opened in 2020, a 500-tree orchard, a certified biodynamic Market Garden and the only biodynamic tree nursery in the UK. Biomass boilers, a borehole and harvested rainwater close the loop. Marle restaurant holds a Green Michelin Star.

Six room types in the house and its corridors, plus two cottages in the grounds. For a group: the Assembly Room with movable walls opening onto the gardens, the Card Room for registration, a screening room, the long table of the Dining Room and the Glass House in the walled garden. Trains run from London Waterloo to Winchfield, then a fifteen-minute drive; the hotel arranges transfers.

Photo credits : Heckfield Place (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) ; auteur inconnu, 1900 (Wikimedia Commons, domaine public)

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