Events Around Cheshire

Its not just the Tudors who lived at Little Moreton. Find out more about the modern inhabitants, their work and what it was like to live here. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

International artist Hilary Jack has created a filmic piece for the Hall, inspired by the Tudor tennis balls found in the Long Gallery. Booking Not Needed.

Maurice, 4th Lord Egerton left a lasting legacy in Kenya. This Mansion exhibition explores the development of his African estates and the story of his time in Kenya, where he is still celebrated and held in great affection today.

Join a 3 mile stroll around Lymes stunning estate. Discover the history of Lyme and how it is maintained by rangers and volunteers. Enjoy dramatic views as you hear about landscape, conservation and natural history, and many of the parks listed structures and deer herds.

This is Goostrey’s 13th Goosfest and features a huge range of music, entertainment, arts and community events.

Throughout the year discover Tudor attitudes to health and food, with a different activity to try each month from making butter in a churn to creating a Tudor pinch pot to keep your remedies in. Explore the way in which the Tudors looked after their health and wellbeing, and get your body Tudor ready!

In 1897, Tatton hosted an extravagant costumed ball in celebration of Wilbraham Egerton’s Earldom. Discover the guests and the costumes they wore, the music and colour of high society entertaining.

Discover the art of the oldest craft in the world: Flintknapping. How did our earliest ancestors make tools to survive through the Stone Age' Find out with experimental archaeologist James Dilley who will guide you through the process of making your flint tools to take home at the end.

Please Note: Saturday 10 August session cancelled due to flood damage. Run, jog or walk around the beautiful surroundings of Lyme. Get active and feel healthy in company at Lyme ParkRun. This is a 5K trail run around Lyme. Ideal for people who are wanting to prepare for the Trust10 route at Lyme.

Set in Manchester, Oldham and London over the course of 40 years, this is a powerful and poignant story about love, jealousy and the price of freedom. First staged in Manchester in 1987 the play is about relationships between mothers and daughters and explores the themes of independence, growing up and secrets.

Join our Park Guides on a gentle walk around the park to discover Dunham’s seasonal highlights. Booking Not Needed. Children welcome. Dogs on leads welcome.

Come down to the Farm to meet all your Farm yard favourites and then its off in search of the perfect pumpkin. Youll choose your own pumpkin, fresh from the field, so prepare to get your hands dirty! Once youve picked the perfect pumpkin, its off to the Clydesdale Barn for delicious three course pumpkin themed menu.

Visit the house to see a photography exhibition of local people who are doing their bit for nature every day. Join the conversation and let us know what you care about when it comes to nature and green spaces and what you would fight to protect. Normal admission applies. Booking Not Needed.

Fabric Hats: A very skilful art. This 5 week course will focus on blocking foundation fabrics such as buckram. This technique provides a wonderful lightweight but stable base that can be covered in a variety of ways. The course will cover millinery techniques such as blocking, wiring, finishing and trimming.

Do you have an ancestor who worked as a servant in the past' Step back in time to experience sights and smells from the country house kitchen in autumn. Do you have an ancestor who worked as a servant in the past' Step back in time to experience sights and smells from the country house kitchen in autumn.

There’s been a stormy disaster and now Percy the Park Keeper’s animal friends don’t have anywhere to live! Help Percy devise a plan to find his little friends a new home this autumn. Explore the garden and deer park on this interactive trail to help Percy’s friends.

Chads New Season 2019/20           TABLE MANNERS by Alan Ayckbourn 07 - 14 September 2019 “one of Ayckbourn’s funniest plays”  ARSENIC AND OLD LACE by Joseph Kesselring 07 - 14 December 2019 “the classic American black farce”  IRON by Rona Munro 25 January - 01 February 2020 “an intense psychological

THE SECRET RAPTURE by David Hare The play, with its themes which are highly relevant today, examines the relationship between two sisters brought together by the death of their  father. One is a junior minister in Thatcher’s government and is brisk and irritated by emotional mess.

Join Alice down the rabbit hole in her magical adventures through Wonderland in this brand-new staging of Lewis Carroll’s family favourite ‘Alice in Wonderland’.

Visit Dunham Massey and be part of a creative harvesting of words and illustrations inspired by The Lost Words, by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris. Pick up a booklet for 2.50 and explore the park, ticking off the Lost Words as you go. Booking Not Needed. Children welcome. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

Poynton Ceilidh run 6 Ceilidh Dances each year with great bands and callers. Bar and free parking. No partner or experience required as all the dances are called and we also have stewards on hand who will help out. Dancing in the lovely Poynton Civic Hall.

Chester Male Voice Choir’s Autumn Festival Concert returns to the Town Hall in Chester with very special guest artiste RHYS MEIRION from Ruthin, star of the 3 Welsh Tenors, S4C and so, so much more.

Cheadle Hulme Flower Show Society are holding their Autumn Coffee Morning where you can purchase Plants, Cakes, Hand made cards, Books, Jigsaws. There will also be a raffle. Please come along, join us for a drink and biscuit and a chat.

Presented by Kathryn Robey, Curator of the Dorothy Clive Garden. The garden’s initial creatio0n lay in Colonel Harry Clive’s wartime decision in 1940 to provide his ailing wife - Dorothy - with a series of interesting walks as she battled with Parkinson’s disease.