Tissington Well Dressings
Tissington Well Dressings
Friday 15 May 2015
Tissington Well Dressings
Tissington Well Dressings
Friday 15 May 2015
We will visit Tissington Village in Derbyshire for a walk round the Well Dressings in the morning. The origins of Well Dressing are lost in antiquity. One theory says that the custom began just after the Black Death of 1348-9. Although the population round about was ravaged by plague, in Tissington all escaped, and the immunity was ascribed to the purity of the water supply. It became the custom to decorate the wells in thanksgiving.
Bring a picnic or have lunch in Herbert’s Fine English Tearooms
Tissington Hall is an early 17th-century Jacobean mansion house. The old moated manor at Tissington was replaced with the new mansion in 1609 by Francis FitzHerbert and remains the home of the FitzHerbert family. It is the hall that makes Tissington Hall unusual. It is one of a small group of compact Derbyshire gentry houses in which a central hall runs through the house from front to back.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £26.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Cost: £26 per person inc. travel, tour of Hall
Coach leaves RNCM, Booth St. M13 9RD at 9.00am and Handforth Dean at 9.30am, and leaves Tissington at 4.30pm
Members and guests
We will visit Tissington Village in Derbyshire for a walk round the Well Dressings in the morning. The origins of Well Dressing are lost in antiquity. One theory says that the custom began just after the Black Death of 1348-9. Although the population round about was ravaged by plague, in Tissington all escaped, and the immunity was ascribed to the purity of the water supply. It became the custom to decorate the wells in thanksgiving.
Bring a picnic or have lunch in Herbert’s Fine English Tearooms
Tissington Hall is an early 17th-century Jacobean mansion house. The old moated manor at Tissington was replaced with the new mansion in 1609 by Francis FitzHerbert and remains the home of the FitzHerbert family. It is the hall that makes Tissington Hall unusual. It is one of a small group of compact Derbyshire gentry houses in which a central hall runs through the house from front to back.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £26.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Cost: £26 per person inc. travel, tour of Hall
Coach leaves RNCM, Booth St. M13 9RD at 9.00am and Handforth Dean at 9.30am, and leaves Tissington at 4.30pm
Members and guests
EVENT DATE
MAY 15, 2015
COST
£26.00 per person
POSTAL BOOKINGS
Booking Closed
NUMBER OF PLACES
Max. places: 38
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