Please ensure you park at our Claudius Way main visitor car park for this event. The Lime Avenue car park is STRICTLY disabled parking only.
Find our main visitor car park using the postcode NN8 2AD.
Spooky Halloween Passport
- 26th - 31st Oct 2024
- Pumpkin carving and painting
- Costume competition
- Scarecrow trail
🎃 CHOOSE YOUR FAVOURITE PUMPKIN
🎃 CARVE THE BEST JACK O LANTERN AT OUR CARVING STATION
👩🎨PAINT YOUR BEST DESIGN AT OUR PUMPKIN DECORATING STATION
🔎 HUNT THE ESTATE FOR SCARECROWS IN OUR GIANT SCARECROW TRAIL
🧙♀️WEAR YOUR BEST COSTUME AND ENTER OUR DAILY COSTUME CONTEST
Enjoy ALL of this for £6.99 per passport. Each passport includes 1 pumpkin, a pass must be purchased for all guests that would like a pumpkin. Accompanying guests that don't need a pumpkin are FREE.
Please note that any additional activities that are going on throughout the week will need an additional ticket, details of which events we are holding and tickets for these can be found here.
General admission begins at 11am until 3pm. If you are interested in our SEND sessions, these will be from 9:30am - 11am every morning, find out more here.
Travel to Chester House Estate:
You can now walk to the estate from Wellingborough due to our brand new pedestrian bridges that have been fully restored and are accessible to the public.
If you are accessing us from Wellingborough by walking, you can follow a path from the Wellingborough embankment through along the Nene Valley alongside the River Nene. As you follow this path (also known as the Nene Way) you'll come to a large footbridge which crosses the Nene and you can see the stunning 17th century Farmhouse across the valley. Head towards the house and follow the landscape path to get to the main site.
Some parts of this route may be uneven and potentially overgrown due to it being a natural footpath, please come prepared for this and wear sensible footwear whilst walking.
If you arriving the the Chester House Estate via bus, the closest bus stop is based on London Road in Wellingborough, you can find the location of this by searching 'The Dog & Duck PH Stop' into Google/Apple maps. Services from Stagecoach run from the bus stop, including services into Northampton, Kettering, Raunds, and many more of the local towns.
Find out more about the local bus routes from Stagecoach and plan your journey by visiting: https://www.stagecoachbus.com/plan-a-journey.
If you need support with getting to us from your location then please contact us and we will help you plan your journey. You can contact us using our contact form.
If you are accessing us via train, you'll need to get the train to the Wellingborough train station and you can either walk following the route below (approx. 40 mins walk) or get a taxi the estate. When getting a taxi to the estate please feel free to use the NN29 7EZ entrance.
