Pride and Prejudice Open Gardens Day at Woodhill Park Estate 10 May 11-4

Pride and Prejudice Open Gardens Day at Woodhill Park Estate, near Oswestry, Shropshire SY10 9AS   

A Pride and Prejudice inspired Spring Open Garden with costumed Gracechurch Historical dancers, craftspeople and musicians, curated workshops and pop-ups
Sunday 10th May 11am - 4pm

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

• Historical Herbologist Workshop

• Antique landscape oil paintings available for purchase from £150

Talks with Holly Merry  and Dr Lucy Andrew

Pride and Prejudice Lunch with the Villager Bookclub

“You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”

Mr Darcy requests the pleasure of your company at a Pride and Prejudice Open Garden on May 10 at Woodhill Park Estate.

“Regency attired Gentlemen and Ladies will be promenading in the Walled Garden …

& holding Regency Craft demonstrations in the Lion Courtyard throughout the day, such as reticule sewing, lavender crafts, card games, croquet, quilting and bonnet making…

& further escorting guests around the gardens to peruse a number of delights for their delectation:

(the Historical Herbologist will also host a workshop in the Glasshouse for eight guests -  ticketed separately )

11am - Garden Opens 

11am - Tea and cake available in the Fern Courtyard including:

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

11.15-12.15 - Holly Merry esteemed author of “Jane Austen’s Easter” will give a talk in the Jasmine Studio. £2pp

11.30-12 - Join Lady Catherine de Bourgh and the Gracechurch Dancers - in the Jasmine Courtyard 

12.30-3pm - The Villager Bookclub will give a Pride and Prejudice themed lunch, by The Great Catering Co.

Mrs Bennet … “did not think any thing less than two courses, could be good enough for a man, on whom she had such anxious designs, or satisfy the appetite and pride of one who had ten thousand a-year.”

1pm to 1.30pm - the Gracechurch Dancers invite you to the “Ball at Netherfield”

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

2-2.30 - the Gracechurch Dancers invite you to dance at Mr and Mrs Darcy’s wedding reception 

"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

3pm - Esteemed professor Dr Lucy Andrew, author of A Very Vexing Murder (based on Jane Austen’s Emma) will give a talk in the Jasmine Studio 

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

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

4pm Open Garden and Workshops finish