Wentworth Woodhouse celebrates the Celtic Beltane Festival

From songbirds at dawn to night-time herbal and craft workshops… Wentworth Woodhouse celebrates the Celtic Beltane Festival Take a dawn chorus walk, go forest-bathing or sit by a glowing bonfire for a night of Celtic story-telling… For one magical week, visitors can experience the historic gardens of Wentworth Woodhouse as never before. From April 26, the Rotherham stately home is staging an outdoor celebration of Beltane, the centuries-old Celtic festival […]

23/04/2025

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Big-hearted businesses steamrollered in for Wentworth Woodhouse

That’s the festive spirit! Big-hearted businesses steamrollered in for Wentworth Woodhouse There was only one thing Wentworth Woodhouse Chief Operating Officer Dean Borrington wanted for Christmas… A smooth road ahead for customers heading to the mansion’s newest commercial venture, its beautifully restored Georgian Camellia House. The £5m regeneration of the Grade II* garden building was completed in the spring and customers are flocking. But there was next-to-nothing in the kitty […]

14/01/2025

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Wentworth Woodhouse Christmas crew has been busy all year prepping its home-grown ‘Night Before Christmas’ festive extravaganza

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…’ So begins the much-loved children’s Christmas poem, A Visit From St Nicholas, composed in 1822. But at Rotherham’s Stately home Wentworth Woodhouse, plenty has been stirring for over 10 months, in readiness for its home-spun festive event inspired by the story. Its visitor-led Yuletide experience ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas launches […]

05/12/2024

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Story of miner who risked his life for a pit pony features at Wentworth Woodhouse mining exhibition

The bravery of a teenage miner who laid his life on the line to save his pit pony during a mining accident is set to pull on heartstrings in a new exhibition at Wentworth Woodhouse.During a roof fall at his pit in Elsecar, while all uninjured miners ran to find their way out of tumbling rock, pit props and choking dust, John Willie Bell deliberately ran the other way - […]

16/07/2024

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