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2025

The Tenpenny Villages Benefice of Alresford, Elmstead and Frating with Thorrington

Bluebell woods open weekend
















Every year, Thorrington Hall Woods are kindly open up to the public by the Gibbon family who look after the woods and run the farm.

Last year the weather was nice and sunny but in places a little wet under foot.

Over the two days of the woods being open the church also open to refreshments and people to see the decorations for the coronation service.

This was a bumper year for the wood at it saw well over 1000 people attend and raised over £2,500 in donations for the church and Colchester Hospice.

People were queuing to get into the woods, also into the church, people enjoying the weather and each other’s company sitting about in the church grounds.

It was so heart-warming to see so many people come along and have a few hours to enjoy the blue bells, the church and the weather

All thanks goes to those that helped.