Halloween crafts and spooky stories
Bring your apprentice witches and wizards for some Halloween crafty fun at Gawthorpe Hall.
- Booking not needed
- Free event (admission applies)
Join our Halloween crafty fun in the Victorian kitchen, where you can have a go at making your own spooky bat to take home and keep. Afterward, creep along to the spooky story time and see if our scary stories will make you jump.
Then you can explore the rest of the Hall and spot the pumpkins hidden in the rooms. Come dressed up as your favourite witch, wizard or Halloween character and see if you can make us jump.
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This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.
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- Suitability
Family friendly event
- Accessibility
This activity is on the first floor of the Hall, due to the historic nature of the building there is no lift. Access is by stairs.
Upcoming events
An Account of Life: Gawthorpe Hall in the 1600s
An exhibition bringing the household of Gawthorpe Hall in the 1600s to life, through the original account books of the Shuttleworth Family.
Gawthorpe Textiles Collection exhibition
A fantastic display of beautiful historic textiles from the collection of Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth, across four rooms of the Hall.
Fun Palace
Gawthorpe Hall will be open for FREE to everyone on Sunday 5 October with an afternoon of creative activities in our Fun Palace event.
Talk on: Witches, Dark Arts and Demonology
Popular speaker Dr Colin Penny is back with a new talk about why there was a moral panic about witches and what were the horrors of the supernatural in the 1600s?