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Home > Heritage > Enjoy a Victorian Christmas with the Butler

Enjoy a Victorian Christmas with the Butler

By Caroline King - November 14, 2013Posted in : Heritage

Mount Grace Priory - English Heritage

Mount Grace Priory (Photo: English Heritage)

When: 30th November and 1st December 2013

Where: Mount Grace Priory, Staddlebridge, Northallerton, North Yorkshire DL6 3JG

£: Adults £5.40, concessions £4.90, children £3.20 and family ticket £14. English Heritage members go free.

What is it?

Meet the Victorian Butler, Meakins, at Mount Grace Priory.  Hear his tales of Christmases past; the traditions that we still enjoy today, the foods and festivities, will all be explained and demonstrated.

Performances will take place at 11.15am, 12.30pm, 1.45pm and 3pm.

Mount Grace Priory is the best preserved Carthusian priory in Great Britain.  It is set in woodland and is home to a colony of stoats.  The priory has a reconstructed monk’s cell and herb plot for the public to visit.

More info: www.english-heritage.org.uk

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Tagged With: Christmas, English Heritage, Family events, Mount Grace Priory, North Yorkshire events, Yorkshire

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