Bodrhyddan Hall
Bodrhyddan Hall
4.5
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The 17th Century home of Lord Langford and his family. Open to the public between June-Sept, Tues & Thursday. The opening times are between 2-5pm. Licensed wedding venue available for bookings.
Duration: 2-3 hours
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- patSwinton, United Kingdom10 contributionsGreat visit, lovely placeLovely place, well organised. Third year we’ve been and will be back. Reasonably priced so even ideal if you just want a walk round the gardens. Seemed more crafts than plants this year which are beautiful but I just can’t afford 🥲Visited June 2024Travelled with friendsWritten 18 June 2024
- Susan G1 contributionA beautiful event venue.Bodrhyddan Hall hosts the Ceramics Wales event each year, which brings together over a hundred ceramicists from all over the country. The creativity and standard of work is so inspiring. It is an annual event and very well organised. There are also plants for sale and food is available. I can highly recommend this event. The house and grounds are also stunning, and I'll be visiting them too.Visited June 2024Travelled with friendsWritten 18 June 2024
- Valentine49Corfu, Greece11 contributionsMore than I anticipated.I enjoyed the pots and plants sale day on Saturday. Despite the rain there were many stalls selling pottery, plants and food . Much more than I anticipated. We would have loved to walk round the garden too but rain stopped play. All for a small entrance fee. I bought a beautiful potted flower arrangement at a great price too!Visited June 2024Travelled with friendsWritten 18 June 2024
- Rob S4 contributionsBrilliant afternoon out.Travelled all over North Wales as a child on family holidays and as an adult but never knew this little gem existed. Spent a lovely afternoon wandering round the gardens and then the house tour. The knowledge of our guide was brilliant and she led a very interesting tour around the house showing a great depth of knowledge, passing over a lot of information of the house and its former residents. Then we finished off with tea and cake in their on site tea room. Would definitely recommend. Well worth the entrance fee.Visited August 2024Travelled as a coupleWritten 24 August 2024
- Christine E13 contributionsA couple of hours well spentInteresting and entertaining visit despite the power issues. Our guide provided a real insight into the family and how they enjoyed the property. Mixing facts with a great sense of humour she entertained all of our group which I'm guessing ranged in age from under 10 to 70+. The admission price was good value and the gardens are well worth a stroll.Visited July 2024Travelled as a coupleWritten 30 September 2024
- Jonathan W4 contributionsA gem of a placeAn absolute gem of a place steeped in history and amazing stories relayed to us by our guide on the day Hazel who was most knowledgeable and engaging The house’s artefacts were countless covering many generations of the family who have taken their heritage seriously and kind enough to share with us all Take time to visit the extensive grounds and beautifully maintained gardens Such a lovely experience Jonathan and Rachel WilliamsVisited September 2024Travelled with friendsWritten 30 September 2024
- Tangoj63Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom1,015 contributionsKnowledgeable guide on our tourWe had a very knowledgeable guide on our tour. This is a lovely house and home with many rooms still used by the family especially for entertaining. The gardens are lovely and luckily we had a sunny afternoon to enjoy them. We also enjoyed a cup of tea and lemon drizzle cake in the tea room which was the old billiard room.Visited September 2024Travelled as a coupleWritten 30 September 2024
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Citytravelperson
Glasgow, UK2 contributions
Jun 2022
Visited today for what was advertised as a pots plants and food market but it turned out to be a 99% art pottery exhibition with just one or two stalls selling cheap plants. Paid our £10 entry fee but once inside had to return to my car to get my walking stick. On the way out I made sure the staff on the gate knew I had already paid but when I returned they insisted I pay again! Very aggressive and rude staff on the gate and the market was not as advertised. Beautiful site let down by their staff.
Written 11 June 2022
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Hello, thanks for the review. The exchange you’re describing simply did not happen. We let hundreds of people back and forth through the day on nothing but their word alone. We have 32 plant, food and craft exhibitors this year complimented by 80 potters and ceramicist so not exactly 99% but I take on board your feedback and we will look to balance things out in the future.
Written 12 June 2022
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Christine E
13 contributions
Jul 2024 • Couples
Interesting and entertaining visit despite the power issues. Our guide provided a real insight into the family and how they enjoyed the property. Mixing facts with a great sense of humour she entertained all of our group which I'm guessing ranged in age from under 10 to 70+. The admission price was good value and the gardens are well worth a stroll.
Written 30 September 2024
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YankBiker81
Durham, UK2 contributions
Apr 2024 • Friends
1940's Re-enactment Weekend Event.
A massive disappointment on so many levels, the first would be the location its a shame the multi period display isn't more spread out around the house estate, the issue of having to walk in on a already churned up ground isn't the best advertisement. There were re-enactment groups all over the place and not in any kind of order! Ideally, earlier displays ie Saxon, Viking and medieval should of been at the lower part of the side with civil war in the middle and ww1 and ww2 closer to the Woodline at the top of the field.
Sadly too many chiefs in charge seems to be the issue here, disorganised, stalls are over priced selling tat! might as well have been a car boot sale.
Its a long way for some to travel to see very little
A massive disappointment on so many levels, the first would be the location its a shame the multi period display isn't more spread out around the house estate, the issue of having to walk in on a already churned up ground isn't the best advertisement. There were re-enactment groups all over the place and not in any kind of order! Ideally, earlier displays ie Saxon, Viking and medieval should of been at the lower part of the side with civil war in the middle and ww1 and ww2 closer to the Woodline at the top of the field.
Sadly too many chiefs in charge seems to be the issue here, disorganised, stalls are over priced selling tat! might as well have been a car boot sale.
Its a long way for some to travel to see very little
Written 24 June 2024
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Faithcullen
The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, UK87 contributions
Aug 2022 • Family
We thoroughly enjoyed our family visit to this magnificent and quirky estate. Great fun for all the family! The tea and cake was a must and soooo delicious, better scones than you can find in Cornwall! Served by 2 lovely ladies. All the staff and the Lady/Lord if the manor could not have been more welcoming and we all enjoyed meeting and seeing the gorgeous Dalmatian’s running around! The gardens and magnificent and the children (7&12) loved running around and exploring. I would highly recommend the tour which was amazing and so informative and interesting. The lady doing the tour was new ( covering the usual guide who was off) she was absolutely brilliant and really made it interesting and interactive for the children as well as the adults without boring us to tears. We all agreed it was one of our favourite trip of the week in north wales and I’d highly recommend. Thank you for letting us into your wonderful home!
Written 6 September 2022
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Susan G
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Jun 2024 • Friends
Bodrhyddan Hall hosts the Ceramics Wales event each year, which brings together over a hundred ceramicists from all over the country. The creativity and standard of work is so inspiring. It is an annual event and very well organised. There are also plants for sale and food is available. I can highly recommend this event. The house and grounds are also stunning, and I'll be visiting them too.
Written 18 June 2024
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peterwK9220MR
Anglesey4 contributions
Sept 2024 • Family
Interesting garden with degree of informality for most of the area. Inside the house there are many interesting artefacts, far more than there is really time for the guide to point out. The tearoom could have a wider range available. Certainly worth a visit especially as there is a low density of NT establishments in North Wales.
Written 2 October 2024
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Jane Ruthin
1 contribution
Jun 2022
Visited this event shortly after it opened yesterday and my first impression was that we must be in the wrong place. I enquired at the reception asking where the plants and food event was only to be told by a rather curt and obnoxious gentleman that the dozen or so gazebos selling grotty cakes and a few plants is all there is. There was a large pottery sale on at the same time which looked like the main event but to advertise as plants pots and food is ridiculous.
Written 12 June 2022
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Hi Jane, or is it Fred? As this is a copy and paste of the same review you left on our Google page. As I replied to you there, I very much doubt you did attend this event but if you do want to come today in person the event runs from 10-4pm
Written 12 June 2022
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Valentine49
Corfu, Greece11 contributions
Jun 2024 • Friends
I enjoyed the pots and plants sale day on Saturday. Despite the rain there were many stalls selling pottery, plants and food . Much more than I anticipated. We would have loved to walk round the garden too but rain stopped play. All for a small entrance fee.
I bought a beautiful potted flower arrangement at a great price too!
I bought a beautiful potted flower arrangement at a great price too!
Written 18 June 2024
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Hattie
3 contributions
Nov 2021 • Family
The owners aggressive dogs should be kept away from the public to avoid someone getting hurt and not just left to wonder around unsupervised. We had to leave the gardens because one of the dogs was following us growling at my 5 year old son. This was completely unprovoked and we did not have a dog with us. This along with the amount of dog mess on the estate ruined the whole experience for us. Staff apologised for the dog mess and explained they had hunting hounds on the estate the previous week.
Written 8 November 2021
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Rob S
4 contributions
Aug 2024 • Couples
Travelled all over North Wales as a child on family holidays and as an adult but never knew this little gem existed. Spent a lovely afternoon wandering round the gardens and then the house tour. The knowledge of our guide was brilliant and she led a very interesting tour around the house showing a great depth of knowledge, passing over a lot of information of the house and its former residents. Then we finished off with tea and cake in their on site tea room. Would definitely recommend. Well worth the entrance fee.
Written 24 August 2024
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What is the policy on dogs in the grounds and in the house ?
Written 24 July 2019
Hello! Dogs on leads are permitted! Thanks
Written 4 October 2019
Hello, the house is only open Tuesday & Thursday between June and September. However, large group bookings can be made outside this time with enough notice.
Kind regards
Tom
Written 3 September 2015
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