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Christmas at Bateman's
This festive season, the jungle comes alive once more at Bateman’s with a bigger, bolder, and even more enchanting Jungle Book Christmas.
The Jungle Book Christmas
Saturday 15 November to Sunday 4 January (closed 24 & 25 December)
11am to 3.30pm | Free, normal admission applies
This festive season, the jungle comes alive once more at Bateman’s with a bigger, bolder, and even more enchanting Jungle Book Christmas.
The world-renowned author of The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, lived at Bateman’s for over 30 years, and the house remains to this day a warm and welcoming family home. With a reputation for quality and craftsmanship, Bateman’s Christmas displays continue to delight visitors year after year.
This year, the magic of The Jungle Book returns. Explore the house and spot Mowgli’s animal friends swinging, climbing, hiding, and leaping through the rooms in a joyful celebration of Kipling’s timeless tale.
Festive food and shopping
The Oast House shop will be filled with a wide array of Christmas decorations, cards, gifts, books, and stocking fillers, while the Mulberry Tea-room will be serving up warming festive treats.
Winter walks and fresh air
Winter in the garden
Nature may be resting, but there is beauty to be found in the sculptural forms of the skeleton trees, splashes of colour from winter flowers and a sense of peace in the sleeping garden. The winter landscapes reveal the structure of the garden that Kipling created at Bateman's and capture views that can only be enjoyed at this time of year. Bring family and friends and keep your eye out for wildlife with a winter spotter sheet.
Estate walks
Pull on your wellies and follow in Rudyard Kipling’s footsteps with a winter walk around the fields, woods and hills of the Bateman’s estate. Walk leaflets can be picked up from visitor reception.
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