V Festival 2009 will take place on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd August. Tickets will go on sale March 2008 - click back here for more details as they emerge or go to the V Festival website for further information.
Hylands Park Information
This information referes to V Festival 2008, please revisit these pages in the build up to next year's V as during the planning process changes may occur.
Hylands House, built in 1728, is a beautiful neo-classical restored Grade 2* listed house set within some 570 acres of heritage parkland containing ancient woodland, ponds, formal pleasure gardens and a serpentine lake. The park has a wide variety of interesting flora, fauna and wildlife including badgers, foxes, squirrels and deer. There is also a large variety of mature trees including oak, ash, hornbeam, field maple and, as part of the current restoration plan, an additional 25,000 new trees were planted in 2005/6.
For bird watchers there are woodpeckers, heron, kingfishers, skylarks and song thrushes, to name but a few.
Please note that Hylands Park, the serpentine lake and some of the buildings on the Estate are being restored with the assistance of Heritage Lottery Funding. This important work commenced in October 2004 and will be complete by 2007.