Surrey Hills Food & Drink Festival
28 July 2012 - details released

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PRESS RELEASE
17/01/12

Surrey Hills Food & Drink Festival
28 July 2012

A festival of Surrey Hills wine, beer and food to celebrate the first of the 2012 Olympic Games events will take place at Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, on July 28.

The Surrey Hills Festival will showcase the best of Surrey’s local food and drink, art and entertainment. Entry for this community event will be free. This would also be an ideal opportunity to visit Dorking and soak up the atmosphere, attractions and heritage of this famous market town when the eyes of the world will be on Surrey.

Tens of thousands of spectators are expected to converge on the area around Dorking and Box Hill, which offers the best opportunity to see the cycle race. Once the cyclists have passed down the A24 and completed their nine circuits of Box Hill via the Zig Zag, visitors and local people alike will be invited to make their way to Denbies to taste the wine and local beers and feast on farm produce, from hog roasts to strawberry cream teas.

There will be music and entertainment and lots of stalls selling local produce to eat or take home. The festival kicks off at 11am and the Denbies train will be on hand to ferry visitors back and forth. Roads will be closed to cars but the vineyard is within easy walking distance of Box Hill, West Humble and Dorking railway stations and it is also accessible by cycle track.

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Issued by Jane Garrett on behalf of the Surrey Hills Board.
For more information call 01483 203237, 07884 268594 or email jane@kumar2087.freeserve.co.uk

Notes to editors:
1. The Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is one of 34 nationally protected landscapes in England, having equal landscape status and protection to a National Park. The Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) was designated on 8 May 1958, which makes it the first AONB in southern England to be designated (the first nationally was the Gower and Lleyn peninsulas in Wales in 1956). The Surrey Hills AONB stretches across a quarter of the county of Surrey and includes the chalk slopes of the North Downs from Farnham in the west to Oxted in the east and extends south to the deeply wooded Greensand Hills which rise in Haslemere. For further information on the Surrey Hills please visit www.surreyhills.org

2. The Surrey Hills Board is a Joint Management Committee which is funded by Natural England, the National Trust, Surrey County Council and the local authorities within the Surrey Hills area.