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One Week Until Tudor Week 2025!

Updated: Mar 26

It’s one week to go until Tudor Week 2025 at Athelhampton!


A close up of a bass viol - a stringed instrument a little like a cello, but smaller and with six strings, being played by a Tudor lady.
Photo by Dorset Morri'arty

Step back in time this autumn half term and experience life as it was more than four centuries ago. Over forty Tudor re-enactors will be living and working throughout the house, bringing to life the sights, sounds, and scents of 1580.


A view out of a lattice window of two Tudor gentlemen practising their swordplay.
Photo by Dorset Morri'arty

See the cooks at work in the kitchens, the maids tending to their chores, musicians in the Great Hall, and Sir Nicholas Martyn, master of the House welcoming his guests.


A young visitor girl examining different herbs laid out on a table, and being shown a Tudor book with pictures of the herbs in by a Tudor lady.
Photo by Jane Tearle

A wonderful family experience, full of colour, history and fun, all set within one of England’s finest Tudor manors.



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