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  • Heritage Walk – From Iron to Empire

    Stanwick Lakes

    Find out about the Iron Age and Roman history of Stanwick Lakes on this informative guided walk with Heritage Coordinator Nadia Norman.

    £6.00

  • Valentine’s Blacksmithing Workshop

    Stanwick Lakes

    A Blacksmithing Workshop designed for couples or pairs A unique, hands-on experience that combines heritage, creativity, and a touch of fire! In this special Valentine’s workshop, you and your partner will learn traditional blacksmithing skills and create your own individual heart-shaped keepsake from a recycled horseshoe, symbolising love, sustainability, and craftsmanship. You’ll even have the […]

    £95.00

  • B17: A Wartime Tragedy Exhibition – February 2026

    Stanwick Lakes

    Anniversary Exhibition To mark the anniversary of a mid-air collision that occurred between two B17 Flying Fortress aircraft on the 22nd February 1944, a one-day exhibition to commemorate this tragic event will be open to the public. Situated in The Solstice Suite in the Visitor Centre, the exhibition will offer insights into the bravery and […]

  • Willow Weaving Course: Obelisk & Bird Feeder

    Stanwick Lakes

    Spend a creative day at Stanwick Lakes learning traditional willow weaving techniques. This beginner-friendly workshop guides you through making a woven garden obelisk and a spiral bird feeder, building practical skills in shaping and tension in an inspiring natural setting.

  • Spoon Carving Workshop – One Day

    Stanwick Lakes

    Spend a relaxing day at Stanwick Lakes learning traditional spoon carving techniques. This beginner-friendly course covers cleaving wood, shaping with an axe, and carving with sloyd and hook knives to create your own handcrafted wooden spoon. Set in the oak-framed craft barn and surrounded by 750 acres of inspiring wetlands, it is a practical and immersive introduction to green woodworking.

  • Tinsmithing workshops

    Stanwick Lakes

    This critically endangered heritage craft is being kept alive at Stanwick Lakes — and you can be a part of it! Learn the skills of tin-smithing from one of the last tinsmiths in the country. Tinplate - a thin sheet of iron or steel coated with pure tin - is strong, lightweight, durable, food safe […]

  • Summer Solstice at Stanwick Lakes

    Stanwick Lakes

    Join us on Saturday 20th June 2026 for a full day and evening celebration of the Summer Solstice at Stanwick Lakes, running from midday through to midnight. Across the day you can explore living history, hands-on heritage activities and creative workshops, before moving into evening experiences that continue the celebration into the night. From Roman […]

  • Heritage Talk: Bronze Age Burials And Ceremonial Landscape

    Stanwick Lakes

    Bronze Age Burials And Ceremonial Landscape A heritage talk by Professor Stephen Upex The coming of the Bronze Age heralds major changes in the way that society appears to have operated, farmed, buried their dead and worshipped which can all be detected within the archaeological landscape. This talk will review some of these changes and […]

    £8.00 – £10.00

  • Heritage Open Day

    Stanwick Lakes

    Discover the everyday lives spanning 5,000 years at Stanwick Lakes. From Roman crafts and Viking camps to blacksmithing, Roman pottery kilns and Bronze Age Boat building - explore the skills, work, and traditions that shaped life in the Nene Valley. Discover 5,000 years of everyday life in the Nene Valley at Stanwick Lakes this Heritage […]

  • Heritage Talk: The Roman invasion of AD 43 and the conquest of Britain

    Stanwick Lakes

    The Roman invasion of AD 43 and the conquest of Britain A heritage talk by Professor Stephen Upex The Romans sent an invasion force to Britain in AD 43 and for the next 4 centuries controlled the landscape of Britannia. This talk will explain how this invasion unfolded. Who where the troops, what were their […]

    £8.00 – £10.00