A reminder that we are closed for a long weekend from Friday 7th-Monday 10th August. Open as usual from Tuesday 11th August.
Meanwhile just take a look at how incredibly dry it is here!
Child admission summer price reduction
We have reduced our child admission price for the summer, in line with the reduction in VAT. The summer child price is £2.63 (from £3) and is valid from 25th June to 1st September. It’s not much but every little helps! All our admissions go to help maintain the grounds and the ruins, a scheduled monument, for you to enjoy.
Our grounds are a peaceful place for families to visit. We don’t have a playground, but we do have lots of open space, green lawns and shady spots, woodland to explore, sticks to pick up and four bridges over the river Stiffkey on which to play Pooh sticks. Take care near water!
Visitors are more than welcome to picnic in the grounds.
Opening hours for March
The snowdrop season is drawing to a close, and while the blooms are past their first flush, there are still swathes of white to enjoy in the woodland. The hellebores are looking absolutely magnificent while our thousands of daffodils are starting to show through.
Changes to opening hours for March
Closed Monday 2nd-Thursday 5th March
Open Friday 6th March-Monday 9th March 11am-4pm
Open Friday 13th March-Monday 16th March 11am-4pm
Open Friday 20th March-Monday 23rd March 11am-4pm
Open daily from Friday 27th March-Sunday 1st November 11am-4pm
Event: Wine Tasting & Snowdrop Walk 6th, 7th, 20th, 21st February
Join us to taste our Walsingham Estate wines together with exploring the snowdrops, an extra special way to enjoy our spectacular snowdrop displays at the Abbey.
We’re inaugurating the first Walsingham Estate Vineyard tastings, hosting them in the original 18th-century courtroom here, the Shirehall Museum, during our snowdrop season. Wine in a court? Is this a world first?
Dates: Friday 6th & Saturday 7th February; Friday 20th and Saturday 21st February
Tickets are £35 pp which includes admission to the Abbey Grounds snowdrops.
You will sample our full range of Walsingham Estate wines, paired with local Norfolk cheeses. Two of the wines have won WineGB bronze medals, while our Pinot Noir was picked by The Times’ wine critic Jane MacQuitty as one of her top English reds.
Following the tasting, you can take a glass of our traditional method sparkling Bacchus and wander the woodland walks in the grounds, carpeted with snowdrops.
Continue reading “Event: Wine Tasting & Snowdrop Walk 6th, 7th, 20th, 21st February”
Open for snowdrop walks
We are delighted to say that our gates are now open and we look forward to welcoming visitors again.
Snowdrop walks begin today and there is already a good show.
Many of our ‘specials’, named varieties, are already in bloom.
Snowdrop Charity Day, Saturday 14th February, Valentine’s Day 2026
We are delighted to announce that our annual snowdrop charity day will be on Valentine’s Day, Saturday 14th February, and will be in aid of Tapping House. All admissions will be donated, and in addition there will be refreshments available at the Parish Hall which will become a pop-up café for the day.
Tapping House is also known as ‘the Norfolk hospice’ and is a registered charity, based in Hillington, King’s Lynn. The hospice provides free care, comfort and compassion to adults in Norfolk and North Cambridgeshire living with life-limiting illnesses and support for their carers, families and friends.
A centre of clinical excellence in the region and further afield, Tapping House has been at the forefront of education in palliative care for 40 years.
It costs £6.7 million a year – over £500,000 each month – to deliver the hospice’s services. With less than 25% of funding from government, the rest needs to be raised from donations, so we are delighted to have the opportunity to make a contribution.
If you are unable to join us on the day, do please consider making a donation via this link
Happy New Year and looking forward to the snowdrop season
A very happy new year to all.
It’s snowy and cold here in Walsingham but that doesn’t stop us looking forward to our snowdrop season! The very first shoots are just beginning to show through, always an exciting moment.
We will open for the 2026 snowdrop season from Monday 26th January to Sunday 1st March. We will be open daily, 10am-4pm.
Admission for 2026 is adults £7.50, child £3 (6-16). Under 6 free. Dogs on leads welcome.