Jane Austen Open Gardens Day at Woodhill Park Estate 29 March

Jane Austen Open Gardens Day at Woodhill Park Estate, near Oswestry, Shropshire SY10 9AS   

A Jane Austen inspired Spring Open Garden with costumed dancers, craftspeople and musicians, curated workshops and pop-ups
Sunday 29th March 11am - 4pm

• Fine food, light lunches and cake served by The Great Catering
Company

• Flower Farm Papers Workshop

Create your own journal out of handmade flower paper. Tickets available separately: 

flowerfarmpapers.com/shop/p/papermaking-in-the-glasshouse-create-your-own-journal

• SP Holistic Beauty products

• Antique landscape oil paintings available for purchase from £150

• Zulfi Fabrics - tablecloths, bedlinen and jackets from £50

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”

Mr Knightley requests the pleasure of your company at:

Emma Woodhouse’s Open Garden at Woodhill Park Estate, March 29, 11-4

Regency attired Gentlemen and Ladies will promenade in the Walled Garden …

Display Regency Crafts in the Lion Courtyard …

& further play music and dance for their guests’ delectation:

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”

11am - Don your bonnet and Regency finery for the opening of the Garden

11am  Light Lunches and Cake available

11.30-12 - Join Mrs Augusta Elton and the Gracechurch Historical Dancers - in the “Jasmine Courtyard” at Highbury

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn?”

1pm to 1.30pm - the Gracechurch Historical Dancers invite you to an uncomfortable picnic and dance at Donwell Abbey.

“Pleasure in seeing dancing! - not I, indeed - I never look at it - I do not know who does.”

2pm-2.30pm - the Gracechurch Dancers invite you to dance at Mr and Mrs Knightley’s wedding reception at Hartfield:

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other”. 

Rodrigue Joab bespoke “Pride and Prejudice Chocolates - Spring  at Woodhill Park Estate” will be on sale in the Fern Courtyard

Play “Hunt the Quote,” scattered throughout the Gardens…

The Jane Austen Society Midlands will also be in attendance at the first of our two Jane Austen Days.