Pack a picnic and join us here in the garden at Mapperton to enjoy the open-air experience of one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most timeless comedies. Much Ado About Nothing, will be performed on Saturday and Sunday, 16 and 17…
Please do come to tea at Mapperton on Friday 24 June – and help us celebrate National Cream Tea Day! On that day a garden entry ticket will be £10, which will include a delicious cream tea – using Mapperton…
The clock is being turned back a couple of centuries at Mapperton, near Beaminster, on 19 June. All Saints' Church, which is attached to Mapperton House, is hosting an afternoon concert of 'West Gallery' music by Beaminster Gallery Quire, who…
Keen gardeners are in for a treat when they get the chance to visit Dorset’s largest charity specialist Plant Fair and spend a day discovering beautiful Mapperton House and Gardens. This is the 17th year that Mapperton, near Beaminster, has hosted…
Mapperton House, now the family seat of the 11th Earl of Sandwich, opens its doors to visitors on Easter Sunday. And chocolate lovers have reason to thank the 1st Earl of Sandwich for introducing the 17th century’s fashionable treat that could have led…
Following last year’s record number of visitors to Mapperton House and its gardens, the Jacobean mansion - which featured in the 2015 film of Far from the Madding Crowd - will be open for guided tours in the afternoons, five days a week, from Easter Sunday until the end of…
In 2016 Mapperton House opens to the general public and specialised groups from Easter Sunday to the end of October, 12 noon to 4pm, Sundays to Thursdays, and we are looking for new volunteer guides to conduct house tours. Volunteers…
Mapperton’s Autumn Charity Garden Fair will be held on Sunday 20 September from 10am to 4pm and the selected charity is Yeovil Hospital (Scanner Appeal). This is a particularly good cause and we would like to encourage as many people…
Lady Sandwich writes: Peace, serenity, silence, contemplation, quiet, these are the sort of qualities we look for in gardens. They are places where we can lose ourselves in a “green thought in a green shade”. Mapperton has quiet and lovely…
Four internationally acclaimed musicians are to perform at two concerts this autumn in All Saints Church, beside Mapperton House. In the first concert on 12th September tenor Mark Padmore will sing Dowland and Schubert, accompanied by guitarist Morgan Szymanski, and on…