#WessingtonWassail

Our Second annual Wassail event, we hoped would be bigger and better than our 2020 event - the last normal thing we did before Covid-19 and the Lockdowns - alas it won't be.  But we shan't be beaten in January 2021!  We're planning a smaller, more intimate event, which we hope the local community will support.  We don't know what it will look like yet but we're determined something will happen!  Even if it is a small by invite only intimate event - it will happen. 

Wassailing celebrates a very special and Old English tradition, mostly native to the south east but growing in popularity as country traditions are being revived and celebrated.  It involves hanging cider soaked toast on the trees, with the first piece being placed by the Wassailing Queen, usually a chosen local girl, to wish them good health to wake the them for the following year.  Traditionally takes place on the "Ole Twelvey Night" around the 17th January.

This wonderful old county tradition helps to beat the late January blues, this is perfect event to break up the long, anticlimactic period of winter betwixt the Christmas and New Year holidays and the first signs of Spring that seem a long way off yet.  We'll use the event to help support a good local cause and bring the local community together in our shared love of the countryside and its traditions... and cider! 

We'll be holding the event in our orchard on Back Lane, Wessington.  Our orchard contains around 50 trees, now coming into full maturity, and it has all of the Derbyshire varieties of apple trees, some cider trees and other locally important varieties.  You can read about it here.

We even have a Wessington Wassail Cup made by our friends at Natural Earth Woodcrafts. 

You can book via our online soon hopefully. Look forward to seeing you there!

When: Saturday January 23rd 2021  

Where: Back Lane Wessington at The Little Vineyard

Cost: TBC

How: TBC

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Be ready to make noise!

Bring a tambourine, a drum or even a saucepan to bash and wake the trees!

All visitor parking will be off-site as it is likely to be wet, after the winter weather we've had.  Please park in the village and walk down to us. Bring a torch, maybe a hi-viz top for the kids to be seen on the road as you walk back up afterwards.  Wear warm clothes, and wellies or good waterproof boots or shoes, especially if it's wet.