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05/11/2025

🎅🏃 Mental Elf Run is Back! 🏃🎅
Get ready to lace up those trainers and don your festive gear, the Derbyshire Mind mental Elf Run returns to Elvaston Castle on Sunday, 30 November from 9:00 AM!

✨ This year, they've got something for everyone:
✅ 5K Fun Run for a jolly jog
✅ NEW 10K Timed Event for those who love a challenge

👉 For details and tickets, click here:
https://www.derbyshiremind.org.uk/mental-elf-2025/

08/10/2025

The Flying Scotsman will star at an event celebrating 200 years of railway history at Barrow Hill Roundhouse - with the world-famous locomotive just one of many attractions.

18/09/2025

Join us for a very special Open House as we celebrate Family History Day!
🗓 Saturday 20th September 2025
⏰ 10:00am – 3:30pm
📍 Elvaston Castle – Entry via the Gothic Hall

We’re marking the launch of our brand-new Elvaston Estate Oral History Project and we’d love you to be part of it!

👉 Did you, or someone you know, once work for the Earls or on the estate?
👉 Perhaps your relatives were in service to the Stanhope family, or your family worked as a tenant farmer in years gone by?

This is your chance to:
🌳 Add your memories to our Memory Tree
📜 Explore our Key Finds of names, dates and stories already uncovered
🏰 Enjoy the grandeur of the ground floor of the castle (FREE entry – no tickets required)
🎟 Guided tours sold out for September, but tickets still available for November & December)
📷 Share family stories and photos connected to the estate
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Bring your family, friends, photos and stories and explore this unique venue
🐾 Please note: no dogs inside the castle

Your memories will help preserve the lived history of the Elvaston Estate for future generations.
Everyone is welcome – no booking required!

09/09/2025

04/09/2025

19/10/2024

Set out on our new family trail for this Halloween half-term and crack some cunning clues to work out the identity of a mischief-maker.

Find out what else is happening in Robin Hood's Forest this holiday.

🦇https://bit.ly/Sherwoodevents

03/10/2024

October already?!

Fortunately, we've got plans in place over the next 31 days.

5th October: Fungi Day with Nottinghamshire Fungi Group 🍄
19th October-3rd November: Half-term Halloween Trail 🎃
19th & 26th October: Myths and Legends with the Master At Arms ⚔️
26th & 27th October: Longbow Demonstration with The Sherwood Outlaws 🏹

Find out more: https://bit.ly/Sherwoodevents