GREAT CHALFIELD MANOR SN12 8NH     : ENGLISH CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTMENT EVENT
Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th AUGUST 2024 from 10.00am to 5pm, 4.30pm on Sunday Admission £6 for Adults, 16 years and under go free.

The Marquess of Winchester’s Regiment of the English Civil War Society will re-enact the two-day Royalist occupation of the manor house in 1644 – over 375 years ago.
This event is both to educate the audience about the seventeenth century and to entertain them. The Regiment will march in at the start of each day and guards will be posted to keep watch. The soldiers will drill and
fire muskets and cannon during the day.
In tents in the garden civilians and soldiers will show and tell you how people lived in the seventeenth century

(Living History).
A clerk will be in the Great Hall to replicate the writing of the accounts of September 1644. The officers, soldiers, cavalry, musicians and civilians will recreate activities around the manor. In the afternoon a Parliamentarian patrol will be driven off in a sharp skirmish. Any prisoners taken will be tried and then marched off under escort.

“It’s actually bringing history to life; you can really smell gun powder, hear the noise, and for children it gives them a sense of actually being there and makes history more interesting” (visitor comment).
Admission charges for adults including National Trust members at this event contribute to maintenance and development of the Arts & Crafts gardens at Great Chalfield.

Holy Communion Service (Book of Common Prayer) will be in All Saints’ Parish Church at 10:00 am on 11th August.
For further details see: www.marquisofwinchesters.co.uk