There is an awful lot in the area to explore - Winchester needs a week on its own. Do the city tours they're brilliant. Lots of other local stuff from Twyford Pumping Station (when open) to Jane Austin House and check out the library museum at the same time - that's well worth it. Watercress line is good for a whole day running up and down. Go a little further afield to Portsmouth - Victory is excellent and Mary Rose (slightly disappointed). Beauleu motor museum. Avebury etc. The site is directly off the roundabout - do not carry on towards Alton. You cannot get away from the noise of the main road. Not as bad further down the site but you can't mask the noisy motor bikes at 3am. Some aircraft noise. We coped. Just seen a comment about road closed signs - that was just for the Boomtown Festival. Massive 60000 people 4 days festival just 1/2 a mile away which surprisingly wasn't as noisy as expected. It's the traffic that was the problem over that weekend - we expected it and kept out of the way. Nice to see that there was 24 hour security on the site for its duration controlling access - although that indicates that there must have been previous problems with "travellers" trying to access the site - but we saw no problems. We were well away before the festival finished. The site is busier at weekends with people using it as an overnight for the ferries but we were their at peak school holiday time and it wasn't full. Overall very good.