May 15th 2024 – Grimsthorpe Castle, Gardens and Park Tour. The castle was open especially for our visit.

Patricia Weinbren and Lynne Henderson escorted 49 members of our Arts Society to Grimsthorpe Castle and Park. We travelled by coach provided by Catteralls coach company from Royal Leaminton Spa, the journey took  just over an hour and half. On arrival we were greeted with light refreshments in the barn after which we walked (buggies were provided if needed) to the Castle and divided into 3 groups, each group was given a guided tour of the house which was beautiful and well worth the visit. The tour took approx. one hour. The castle has been owned for 500 years by successive generations of the same family united under one ancient title, The Barony of Willoughby de Eresby.

Following the tour we had a ‘tea lunch’ of sandwiches, scones, cream/cake. The newly opened gift shop was available for us to browse in. After lunch there was a guided coach trip round the extensive park land. The members commented on how lovely the house and grounds were and there was great interest in the fact that we were ‘ahead of the game’ by visiting before the new series of ‘Bridgerton’, (which was filmed at Grimsthorpe) was released by Netflix since once that had been launched the castle was expecting many more visitors.