Britain's What's On Event Guide
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Monday May 29, 2017
What's On Moor Row
Today to 26 Jun 2017 by distance
Buttermere Valley - Self-led family #wildtime trail
Hey, walking in the Lake District’s not just for adults! Go wild in the great outdoors following a fun-packed trail along the lakeshore at...
Buttermere Valley, Unit 16, Leconfield Industrial Estate, Cleator Moor,
Today to Sun 4 Jun
Red Dirt Skinners LIVE
Our live music goes from strength to strength this year with a set from the award-winning and genre-defying duo The Red Dirt Skinners, playing tracks...
Florence Arts Centre, Egremont
Fri 16 Jun
Steve Brookstein
Florence Arts Centre is thrilled to welcome X Factor winner and UK soul/jazz singer Steve Brookstein for a very special intimate acoustic performance...
Florence Arts Centre, Egremont
Fri 23 Jun
Galesyke - Open Garden for NGS
4 acre woodland garden with spectacular views of the Wasdale fells.The R Irt runs through the garden and both banks are landscaped, you can cross...
Galesyke, Wasdale
Sat 3 Jun and Sun 4 Jun
Woolfest 2017
The original British festival of wool and an amazing celebration of nature’s finest fibres. Over 130 wool-related stalls, lots of livestock,...
Mitchell’s Lakeland Livestock Centre, Cockermouth
Fri 23 Jun and Sat 24 Jun
Wordsworth House and Garden - The Word-Hoard: Love Letters to Our Land
An exhibition curated by best-selling author Robert Macfarlane. Our first exhibition of 2017 celebrates the natural world and the words we once used...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Today to Thu 8 Jun, Sat 10 Jun to Thu 15 Jun, Sat 17 Jun to Thu 22 Jun, Sat 24 Jun to Thu 29 Jun, Sat 1 Jul to Thu 6 Jul, Sat 8 Jul to Thu 13 Jul, Sat 15 Jul to Tue 18 Jul
Wordsworth House and Garden - Get cooking in the kitchen
Make a mess making clapbread. Head for the kitchen, roll up your sleeves and try your hand at making a traditional Cumbrian clapbread. Booking Not...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Today, Mon 24 Jul
Wordsworth House and Garden - Become a natural artist
Make some wild art. Let nature awaken your creativity and make a piece of wild art from found objects or create a poem out of stones. We supply the...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Tue 30 May, Tue 25 Jul
Wordsworth House and Garden - Make your mark as a Georgian
Write with a quill and ink. Learn about 18th-century letter writing, pen a missive or poem of your own and seal it the Georgian way. Booking Not...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Wed 31 May
Wordsworth House and Garden - Walk on the wild side
Have fun in the garden. Join a costumed servant on a family garden tour to taste flowers, touch bugs and discover how to turn your own outside space...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Thu 1 Jun, Fri 2 Jun, Thu 27 Jul
Wordsworth House and Garden - Dumbledore and Horniegoggle
Go wild like William and Dorothy on our trail. Hunt for wild words and wonderful creatures in the house and garden - and get some tips on how to turn...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Sat 3 Jun, Sat 22 Jul
Wordsworth House and Garden - Matters of life and death
Take a guided tour and learn how the house was saved. Join us for a 30-minute guided house tour and enjoy a personal insight into the family life...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Mon 5 Jun, Thu 8 Jun, Mon 12 Jun, Thu 15 Jun, Mon 19 Jun, Thu 22 Jun, Mon 26 Jun, Thu 29 Jun, Mon 3 Jul, Thu 6 Jul, Mon 10 Jul, Thu 13 Jul, Mon 17 Jul, Thu 20 Jul
Wordsworth House and Garden - Sounds of the 18th century
Hear our harpsichord being played. Listen to some of the music William might have enjoyed, played on our replica harpsichord - and perhaps even play...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Tue 6 Jun, Tue 13 Jun, Tue 20 Jun, Tue 27 Jun, Tue 4 Jul, Tue 11 Jul, Tue 18 Jul
Wordsworth House and Garden - Conserving William’s garden
Join our head gardener for a guided tour. Meet our head gardener for a seasonal guided tour of William’s childhood playground and discover what...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Tue 6 Jun, Tue 13 Jun, Tue 20 Jun, Tue 27 Jun
Wordsworth House and Garden - Hard at work for the Wordsworths
Step back in time with the servants. Meet the maid or manservant and take in a 10-minute talk about William’s childhood or the harsh realities...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Wed 7 Jun, Sat 10 Jun, Wed 14 Jun, Sat 17 Jun, Wed 21 Jun, Sat 24 Jun, Wed 28 Jun, Sat 1 Jul, Wed 5 Jul, Sat 8 Jul, Wed 12 Jul, Sat 15 Jul
Wordsworth House and Garden - A passionate nature
Learn Dorothy Wordsworth’s secrets. Join a 10-minute talk by a costumed servant to uncover the secret life of Dorothy Wordsworth, the woman...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Wed 7 Jun, Sat 10 Jun, Wed 14 Jun, Sat 17 Jun, Wed 21 Jun, Sat 24 Jun, Wed 28 Jun, Sat 1 Jul, Wed 5 Jul, Sat 8 Jul, Wed 12 Jul, Sat 15 Jul
Art craft and gift fair
Lots of art, craft and gifts made and sold by local people. Knitwear, needlework, crochet goods, jewellery, jams and preserves, candles, soaps, silk...
United Reformed Church hall, Cockermouth, Cumbria
Sat 17 Jun
Muncaster Festival
Welcome Spring back in May with our traditional wacky Muncaster Festival! Come along and soak up the atmosphere on the Castle front lawn. There is...
Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass
Today, Tue 30 May
Bassenthwaite Festival
The first of three concerts of this friendly annual festival of Baroque music, given by Cumbrian chamber group, Ensemble Buxtehude, directed by David...
St Bega’s Church, Bassenthwaite (near Mirehouse, on shore of Bassenthwaite Lake)
Fri 2 Jun
Bassenthwaite Festival
The second of three concerts of this friendly annual festival of Baroque music. A lunchtime recital on the theme of The Ground Bass: organ music by...
St Bega’s Church, Bassenthwaite (near Mirehouse, on shore of Bassenthwaite Lake near Keswick)
Sat 3 Jun
Keswick Mountain Festival
Keswick Mountain Festival returns to the spectacular Lake District from 8-11 June 2017 bringing a fantastic mix of outdoor sports, activities and...
Keswick
Thu 8 Jun to Sun 11 Jun
Friends of the Lake District Fell Care Day at Keswick Mountain Festival
Join Friends of the Lake District at their first Fell Care Day of the year at Keswick Mountain Festival . On Saturday June 10th there will be...
Crow Park Festival Village Keswick
Sat 10 Jun and Sun 11 Jun
Bassenthwaite Festival
The last of three concerts in this friendly annual festival of Baroque music, given by Cumbrian chamber group, Ensemble Buxtehude, directed by David...
St John’s Church, Bassenthwaite (on A591)
Sat 3 Jun
Murder Mystery Weekend at Skiddaw House
Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th June 2017
YHA Skiddaw House, Bassenthwaite, Keswick CA12 4QX
The venue for this Murder Mystery Weekend is Skiddaw...
YHA Skiddaw House, Bassenthwaite, Keswick
Fri 23 Jun to Sun 25 Jun
Allan Bank and Grasmere - Grasmere Gallop
Fast gaining a reputation as one of the friendliest trail races in the Lakes, each year we see more and more first-time runners, Nordic walkers and...
Allan Bank and Grasmere, High Close, Loughrigg, Ambleside
Sat 3 Jun
TrekFest the Brecon Beacons
Choose from a 25km or 50km route across some of the UK's most stunning scenery whilst raising funds for BEAT, the eating disorders charity.
Brecon Beacons National Park, South Wales
Saturday June 3rd 2017
