Britain's What's On Event Guide
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Tuesday May 23, 2017
What's On Whitehaven
Today to 20 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,
Sat 27 May to Sun 4 Jun
Evie Ladin & Keith Terry LIVE
This is dynamic, entertaining American roots music with a twist – California duo Evie Ladin & Keith Terry combine fiery clawhammer banjo, innovative...
Florence Arts Centre, Egremont
Sat 27 May
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
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
Today, 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 - Turner at Buttermere
An evening talk followed by coffee, cake and conversation. Uncover the artist Turner’s relationship with one of the Lake District’s most...
Wordsworth House and Garden, Main Street, Cockermouth
Today
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 25 May, Sat 27 May 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 - 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 24 May, 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 24 May, 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 - 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
Thu 25 May, 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 - 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 27 May, Sat 3 Jun, Sat 22 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
Mon 29 May, 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 - 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
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 27 May, Sat 17 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
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
Sun 28 May to Tue 30 May
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
Ireby Festival
Admiral Fallow, Jon Boden, Fay Hield and the Hurricane party, Martyn Joseph and many more brilliant artists will be making their way to the 15th...
Ireby, Wigton
Fri 26 May and Sat 27 May
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Crookdake Farm - Open Garden for NGS
Windswept informal farmhouse (not open) garden with a careful colour combination of interesting planting sympathetic to the landscape incl various...
Crookdake Farm, Wigton
Sun 11 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
Chapelside - Open Garden for NGS
1 acre organic windy garden below fell, around C18 farmhouse and outbuildings, latter mainly open. Fine views. Tiny stream, large pond. Alpine,...
Chapelside, Penrith
Fri 2 Jun to Sun 4 Jun, Fri 16 Jun to Sun 18 Jun
Rydal Hall - Open Garden for NGS
Formal Italianate gardens designed by Thomas Mawson in 1911; the gardens have recently been restored to their former glory. Formal garden with...
Rydal Hall, Ambleside
Thu 15 Jun, Thu 6 Jul
Charity Garden Open Day: The Limes with Glenlivet
This one and a quarter acre plantsman’s garden has a variety of different plant habitats: woodland, dry sunny gravel beds, rock garden, crevice...
Kirkcudbright ,
Sun 18 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
