Snowdrop Weekends

Snowdrop Weekends are back for 2025. Here's your chance to visit whilst the snowdrop displays in the woodland are at their most brilliant; we'll be open each weekend from 1 February - 16 March.

The café, watermill, second-hand bookshop and gardens will also be open so you can enjoy a wander and a bite to eat. We’re pleased to be hosting a pop up from local café, NEAUM, during Snowdrop Weekends. They will be serving hot and cold drinks, cakes, light bites and soup from a unit in the courtyard. Plus crafting, den building, family fun and vintage book sales - find more information below.

Windowsill salad seed sowing: 1 & 2 February and 15 & 16 February, 11am-12pm & 2-3pm. Meet outside the Dovecote and learn to sow a tray of salad seeds. Then take it home to watch the magic happen!

Self-led den building and trail setting: every weekend in February, 11am-3pm. Find the materials you need to build your own den from natural woodland materials and set a trail for your family and friends to follow. The Visitor Welcome team will point you in the right direction once you arrive.

Block printing: 8 & 9 February and 22 & 23 February, 11am-3pm. Here's a chance to take home printed artwork of the nature that surrounds Acorn Bank - join our volunteers in the Dovecote.