Business events in Rowlands Castle

A village with two planning authorities

Rowlands Castle is a village of 2,970 people, as the ONS counted its built-up area at the 2021 Census. It has its own parish council and sits in East Hampshire district, but part of the parish lies inside the South Downs National Park. That is why its neighbourhood plan has two authorities behind it: the South Downs National Park Authority made the plan on 9 November 2023 for the national park part of the parish, after East Hampshire District Council agreed its decision statement that July.

Historic England lists several buildings in the village, among them the station and the Castle Inn, both Grade II, and the war memorial, listed in 2017.

Stansted Park

Close to the village is Stansted Park, whose grounds are on Historic England's register of parks and gardens at Grade II*, covering about 600 hectares. The garden centre there, with its café, is where business events listed under Rowlands Castle have met: The Gardeners Kitchen at Stansted Park Garden Centre.

Getting here

The station, on Bowes Hill, is managed by South Western Railway. National Rail lists 26 parking spaces and describes step-free access to the platforms as possible in one direction only, so check before you travel if that matters to you.

This is a village, so business figures are kept at district level, and there is less to say about local trade than in the bigger towns. For more nearby, see Havant, Emsworth, Waterlooville and the whole of Portsmouth and the south coast, where our pages place the village.