What's On and Things To Do Around Launceston

Homemade Soup, Dessert, Tea/Coffee Contact Jenny on 01566 773206 Please book if possible as it helps with the catering. Thank you.

The Labrador Rescue Trust Fun Dog Show & Fun Day Out For All The Family. 16 Classes of Fun Competitions, including, Fastest Bonio Eater, Best Young Handler, Best Rescue & Best Veteran. All Breeds Welcome.

June 2nd & 3rd 2018 10am – 5pm Our wonderful English Country Garden Festival, celebrates the diversity and talents of the artisan makers and plant growers , here in the West Country.

2 adjacent s-facing sloping gardens on edge of W Devon village Oakwood: created in 2008 garden provides all yr-round interest with winding paths through well stocked borders and sloping beds, water features, laburnum and wisteria tunnel, mature specimen trees, intimate garden rooms taking advantage of the landscape.

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The rangers are asking for help to construct a giant bug hotel in the orchard to look after all the different insects at the gorge. Then make a mini version to take away and encourage friendly bugs to move into your own garden. Booking Not Needed. Children welcome, they must be supervised at all times.

Learn how to safely use bushcraft knives and tools to make your own wooden mallet or cricket bat. Booking Essential. Phone: 01822 820320. Children aged 7 to 12 years welcome, they must be supervised at all times. Dogs on leads welcome.

Let your creative side go wild, join our Ranger team to explore the art of wild woodland sculpture. Make a piece of wild art to take home using hand tools, natural materials and your imagination. Work together to create one as a family or make one individually. Booking Advisable. Phone: 01822 820320.

Forage for Elderflowers around the Lydford orchard and rustle up a batch of Elderflower cordial, then lunch on trout cooked over the open fire with seasonal wild garnishes. Join the ranger team to get an insight into some of the edible treats that grow in the gorge and use them to garnish a lovely trout lunch.

Climb aboard the 22ft ’Nancy Belle’ and take a ride up the river. Starting from Cotehele Quay the ’Shamrock’s’ support boat, ’Nancy Belle’, will head up the river Tamar past riverside woodlands, under the railway viaduct, past Calstock and deeper into the valley towards...

Cotehele Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting and selling the work of West Country artists and craft makers. This exhibition features Paul Jackson, one of Britain’s leading ceramicists in a show called ’Madrugada’. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

Cotehele’s First World War exhibition features photos, trench art and personal items loaned from members of the local community. Not many people are aware that Cotehele House is a war memorial.

Adventure down to Cotehele Mill on Thursdays and Sundays to see the mill in action. The millers grind organic wholemeal flour. You can watch the grinding and bagging on Thursdays and Sundays (water dependent) and buy a bag to take home. Booking Not Needed. Dogs on leads welcome.

Join family and friends for a stroll around garden and estate, finishing off with a hearty roast within the Barn Restaurant or The Edgcumbe tea-room on Cotehele Quay. Happiness is a Sunday roast, drop by to the Barn Restaurant or pre-book a seat at The Edgcumbe tea-room on Cotehele Quay.

Cotehele Gallery exhibits and sells the work of West Country artists and craft makers. This exhibition features the work of local landscape watercolour painter Peter Dolbear and handcrafted mirrors created by Joan Bose. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

Join local artist Peter Dolbear for a painting workshop in the beautiful setting of Cotehele where Peter will be teaching you the skills of painting. Join local artist Peter Dolbear for a painting workshop in the beautiful setting of Cotehele where Peter will be teaching you the skills of painting.

One acre organic gardens set around mill house and restored working water mill. Small cottage garden; herb garden with medicinal and dye plants; productive fruit and vegetable garden, and a wild woodland and water garden by the mill.

Historic walled gardens, redesigned and brimming with colourful, tall and lush planting. Large restored Victorian glasshouses and romantic ruins. Extensive mature bamboo grove. Giant pergola, fruit, vegetable and herb areas. Home of the painter, Dugald Stark. Studio open.

Cottage style garden, about 0.3 acre, arranged with separate spaces. First an area of landscaped dry planting and a small pond. Outside the front door the theme is tropical with various palms, yuccas, agave and cannas. S-facing rear garden with views across the R Lynher valley, and sun terraces with plenty of seating.

8 acre pleasure garden around Victorian farmhouse arranged in rooms with many attractive features. Fernery, ornamental pond, borders, sculptures, oriental garden with stone bell, lake with carp. Plants in long border to attract butterflies and bees.

Minster Community Fellowship present "Music Of John Denver’ presented by Chris Bannister. Sat 2nd June at Minster Church, Boscastle. Refreshments (including Beer/Wine) and a Raffle will be available

More than just an ordinary Pink Floyd tribute band, The Darkside of Pink Floyd entertain audiences with a fantastic light show and passionate performances.

A sea of bluebells covering the floor of the Great North Wood. Booking Not Needed. Dogs on leads welcome.

Discover quirky facts about Drake’s famous voyage. Collect your passport to the past from visitor welcome to help you follow Drake’s route and become a Tudor explorer. Booking Not Needed. Perfect for families.

The launch week of our new family trail following Francis Drake on his famous circumnavigation. A family trail taking in all of Francis Drake’s famous voyage of discovery. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

An artistic celebration of Drake’s famous circumnavigation of the world. An exhibition in partnership with Devon Art Pop who will interpret the story of Drake’s voyage through a variety of artistic pieces. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

Old stone cottage with 2 studios overlooking cliffs and sea, set in 1½ acres of gardens - cottage, small wood and Blue Circle garden (RHS Chelsea 2001) constructed in colour concrete. Owner has a national reputation for her sculpture in concrete, and sculptures all around occupy small spaces or command a view.

Want to meet new people' Why not spend a day out in the fresh air and play a part in the National Trust’s important conversation work. It’s balsam pulling season so come along and help us remove this invasive weed to allow our native plants and wildlife to flourish. Booking Advisable.

If you’ve ever wondered what our rangers do to manage the land we look after, this is a chance to find out and get involved. We’ll be controlling the spread of ragwort along the coast path, and farm land fringes. Think extreme weeding, with some lovely views.

Bude and Stratton Folk Festival is a friendly mix of folk events held on the late May Bank Holiday weekend 25-28 May 2018. It features music, song, dance, and storytelling, and there is a small programme of children’s events.

An exhibition of paintings - in oil, watercolour and acrylic - of landscape, abstract and figurative subjects -in a bold and arresting style.

Saturday 26th May 2018, 12 noon - 2pm We’ll be joined by Debbie from Wild About Woods for an afternoon of woodland craft. The day will include Fire-lighting and toasting marshmallows on the campfire.

See the house adorned with rag rugs made by Debbie Hastings and learn how this traditional form of up-cycling can create almost anything you put your mind to, what will you create from rags' Booking Not Needed. Family friendly. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

Join Deborah Hastings and the rag rug volunteers and have a go at this age-old art of up-cycling left-over fabrics into soft furnishings for the home. NB there may be a small charge for some materials used. Booking Not Needed. Family friendly. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

A quirky collection of quilts from Victorian bedspreads to modern masterpieces on display throughout the house. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

This garden has been recently restored which was originally constructed on an old school playground. There are borders filled with roses, shrubs and bedding plants. There is a beautiful Mulberry Tree and 3 Sorbus Hupehensis (Pink Pagoda).

Mary Newman’s is a delightful Elizabethan cottage and garden - reputedly the home of Sir Francis Drake’s first wife, Mary Newman.

Saltash Regatta is one of the most colourful events held in Cornwall and certainly for South East Cornwall is the most popular annual Regatta.

Evening of Mediumship with Psychic Medium Nikki Kitt Psychic Medium Nikki Kitt is a Spiritualist Medium who is currently touring the UK with Psychic / Mediumship Evenings.

Join the conservation team to find out how they look after a house full of personal treasures collected by generations of the Carew Pole family right up to the present day. Booking Not Needed.

Keep your minis busy this half term with garden trails, den building and seed planting. Garden Trail Sun 27 May - Sun 3 Jun (excluding closed days), Flower Pots and Seed Planting Mon 28 May, Den Building Thu 31 May. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

This year marks the bicentenary of Humphry Repton, the celebrated landscape designer who left his mark on many great gardens around the country including Antony’s. Join us for this day of celebration marking Repton’s legacy.

3-acre riverside garden some 20 yrs old specialising in trees and shrubs chosen for their flowers, foliage and form, embracing a Gothic lodge remodelled in 2016. Magnolias and camellias, prunus and pieris, azaleas and rhododendrons, paulownias and viburnums, with cornus, davidias and stewartia later.

The 7-acre garden surrounds a beautiful C15 barn and lichened stone outbuildings. It has been expanded and rejuvenated with new plantings to suit the varied levels and soil types, including woodland and pond areas, herbaceous border, little orchard and vegetable plot, and raised beds massed with flowers for cutting (a...

Carol Gasser, Leader & saxophonist. By her late teens Carol had started playing professionally with the famous Ivy Benson All Girls Band. She performed with this band between 1966 and 1971 on both tenor and lead alto saxes.

Well established, wildlife friendly, well labelled plantsman’s garden in stunning high moorland setting.

If you’d like to find out more about Lanhydrock’s beautiful listed garden, then come along to one of our free garden tours. Volunteer guides lead you around the formal garden on most weekdays, sharing their knowledge and answering your questions.

Weekly guided walks of the Lanhydrock Estate. Discover areas you may not have been before or learn something new about Lanhydrock. Weekly walks run from 5 April until 26 October. If you would like to join in, meet us Thursdays outside reception at 2pm. Everyone is welcome, including dogs. Just m.