Mapperton House is recruiting more volunteer guides. Due to a significant increase in visitor numbers this year, extra members of the team are needed to show people round our beautiful Jacobean manor house, family home of the Earl of Sandwich.…
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…
What could be the connection between Mapperton and sandwiches? It's all explained in a little illustrated book called 'Sandwich Man' which is now available in our shop. In a word, it was John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who…