Two Course Light Lunch at Jane Austen Day at Woodhill Park Estate including admission to Open Garden 29 March

Two Course Light Lunch at Woodhill Park Estate, including admission to open garden

Delicious light lunch by the Great Catering Company

And admission to an elegant Spring Open Garden with curated workshops and pop-ups

Two Course Lunch Menu 12-3pm

Asian-style steak and ripe mango salad
coriander, lime and aromatic dressing

Cave-aged Cheddar Welsh rarebit
celeriac rémoulade
optional prosciutto cotto

Wild mushroom, Parmesan and thyme torte
seasonal leaves and herbs, Champagne vinaigrette

Lemongrass, coconut and vine-ripened tomato soup
artisan sourdough, cultured butter

Caramelised onion and St Michael’s Mount goat’s cheese quiche
tomato and herb salsa
mixed leaves, Champagne vinaigrette

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Pâtisserie

Mr Darcy’s Ardent Double Chocolate Cream Cheese Brownie

Mr Collins’s Carrot Cake with ingratiatingly

silken cream cheese frosting

The Officers’ Sticky Banana and Sultana Loaf

Mrs Bennet’s “Have a little compassion on my nerves” Blueberry and Raspberry Lime Drizzle Cake

Meryton Chocolate Cake Mascarpone, with Marsala-soaked raisins

Pemberley Pistachio Shortbread

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• Also available during the day a "Create your own journal workshop" from Flower Farm Papers

Create your own journal out of handmade flower paper. Tickets, including lunch and admission 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.