Much gloom and doom everywhere but Kentwell should still prove a haven of peace and pleasure away from all the stress throughout the year.  We have another full calendar of Events planned and are not cutting back. Kentwell will be a recession-free zone ! 

No Christmas Concerts this year.  After 32 years without a break the tradition had become something of a burden. We like to do things because we want to do it not because we had done it for many years previously. So this year when the choir we had had for the last 6 years could not perform this year as they had done previously, we decided that the time was right to take a breather.  We shall review the situation again next year.

Meanwhile we shall again hold some of our Christmas Tours. These are designed to cover the origins of Christmas and the development of celebrations at that time of year over the millenia. We shall show our decorations and explain the origins and meaning of such trappings as well about much else that we associate with Christmas.  Very different, maybe, from many people's perception but full of beguiling information and novel insights.  More details and booking criteria will be posted shortly.

We are just about to start setting up for this Event.  Last year we created the Event from scratch and surprised even ourselves with what we achieved. Visitors were astonished by it all (and appropriately scared by it).  This year we shall add some new things and do better what we did before. We seem to spend our life here preparing for an Event or taking down after it.  Creating new Events or improving old ones is the fun part of it though, however demanding it may be.

Go to Scaresville event page for more info. 

 It was rewarding for us all here at Kentwell to learn that we had been voted the winner of the Peoples' Award which we, of course, consider the most prestigious of the awards, at the Tourism in Suffolk Awards on 10 October. This award is determined by the votes and responses of the public. We thank all those who must have voted for Kentwell and also our staff who help make Kentwell what it is. Here are the staff who happened to be here on the morning after the Ceremony together with us all screwing up our eyes against a strong sun, which made a rare appearance these days to honour us.