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Nadiya Hussain to appear at Flavours Food Festival

21 | 06 | 2017

TV celebrity baker and chef, Nadiya Hussain, will be appearing at Elsecar’s annual Flavours Food Festival on Sunday, 15 October. The ‘Great British Bake Off’ champion will be cooking up a storm at her live cookery demonstrations, which will take place on the second day of the spectacular event. At the performances which last approximately forty five minutes, she will create a selection of her very own recipes which people can recreate at home.

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Elsecar Rocks

07 | 06 | 2017

The village of Elsecar is excited to announce the date of this year’s annual family fun weekend, ‘Elsecar-by-the-Sea’. To mark the occasion, the new owners of a popular sweet shop in the heart of the village are launching the first-ever Elsecar Rock. The event which will take place on Saturday, 2 and Sunday, 3 September, will bring all the fun of the seaside to the historical village; which was once a celebrated centre of iron-making and coal-mining and part of the extended Wentworth Woodhouse estate.

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Elsecar’s hidden history revealed

26 | 05 | 2017

Elsecar's hidden history has been the focus for expert archaeologists using high tech geophysics equipment this week. The work is part of Elsecar’s new status as a Heritage Action Zone.

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Barnsley Museums welcomes almost 1.2 million visitors

05 | 04 | 2017

Barnsley Museums celebrated attracting almost 1.2 million visitors in 2016/17. To mark the occasion, the last visitors to arrive on Friday, 31 March were presented with a special gift from Cllr Roy Miller, Cabinet spokesperson for Place, at Worsbrough Mill Country Park.

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South Yorkshire village recognised in top ten for special heritage in England

20 | 03 | 2017

The South Yorkshire village of Elsecar in Barnsley has been named a ‘Heritage Action Zone’ by Historic England - one of only ten places in the country to gain the special new status. This nationwide project will breathe new life into areas that are rich in uncelebrated heritage.

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South Yorkshire villages of Elsecar and Wentworth to receive funding of £1.2 million

16 | 03 | 2017

A Partnership created by Barnsley Council and Rotherham Council, has been successful in winning a grant of £1.2 million, to deliver activities focused on the rich heritage stories of the south Yorkshire villages of Elsecar and Wentworth.

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NPS Group announced as the latest founding Joseh Locke Partner for Barnsley Museums & Heritage Trust

01 | 03 | 2017

Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust are proud to announce NPS Barnsley as a founding Joseph Locke partner.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas with the arrival of the Elsecar Winter Festival

10 | 11 | 2016

The Elsecar Winter Festival will be arriving to the historic village between Thursday, 24 and Sunday, 27 November. During the four free days of festive celebrations, visitors will enjoy fire installations, music, entertainment and funfair rides as well as a wide variety of shops and stalls offering unique gift ideas.

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Have a scarily good time at Barnsley Museums this half term

19 | 10 | 2016

Visitors will have a frightfully good time at Barnsley Museums this half term. There will be everything from bats, baking, sketching and monster masks to lantern making, storytelling, terrifying trails and Maleficent's Halloween Ball, plus much more.

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James Martin arrives at Elsecar

19 | 10 | 2016

TV celebrity chef James Martin will be appearing at Elsecar’s Flavours Food Festival on Sunday, 23 October. The spectacular one day event will see the unique historical site of Elsecar transformed into a bustling food and drinks market, offering a wide variety of tasty treats and delicious beverages.

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