Lammas

🌾✨ Celebrate Lammas Festival Day with us! ✨🌾

Join us for a fantastic day of history, heritage, and family fun! 🏰⚔️

🎟️ FREE with an Annual Pass
🕙 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

🌾 Lammas Festival – Celebrate the blessing of the first summer harvest! A traditional festival marking the halfway point between the Summer Solstice ☀️ and the Autumn Equinox 🍂.

📜 This Day in History – Discover the story of the Domesday Book and step back to one of England’s most dramatic periods…

⚔️ Anglo-Saxons vs Normans!
🛡️ Regia Anglorum return with thrilling combat demonstrations, living history displays, and fascinating insights into life in Northumbria during the Norman invasion, following the death of King Harold Godwinson.

🏹 Newcastle Normans are joining us for the very first time! Meet the Normans, experience medieval combat and craft demonstrations, and find out how the French conquered England in 1066.

🏡 Our fantastic Living History Volunteers will also be leading traditional crafts and farm tours throughout the day.

🎬 Behind the Scenes: Bede
Our FREE monthly guided tour is back, exploring The Riders of Rohan and the fascinating links between medieval history and fantasy literature.

🐉 Here Be Dragons Exhibition
Discover how Anglo-Saxon literature has inspired the modern world—from The Lord of the Rings 💍 to Dungeons & Dragons 🎲.

🐑 Farm Club
🕙 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
💷 £5 per child
👧🧒 Ages 8–16

🌟 A packed day of battles, history, crafts, exhibitions, and family fun awaits. We can’t wait to see you there! 🌾⚔️📖🐉