Events

The Bamburgh Run is a glorious annual event for vintage motorcycles, this year departing from outside Lady Waterford Hall in Ford village. Vehicles will start arriving from 9:00am and will be waved off in timed pairs from 10:30am. In the interim you can check the vehicles out, chat to the motorcyclists, and wait for the…

Ford & Etal Estates is hosting two open-air opera performances this summer in the spectacular setting of Ford Castle courtyard. Tonight Opera Brava, Britain’s leading outdoor touring opera company, will present The Barber of Seville.   Written in three weeks, Rossini’s masterpiece is one of the wittiest and most immediately appealing comic operas in the…

Ford & Etal Estates is hosting two open-air opera performances this summer in the spectacular setting of Ford Castle courtyard. Tonight Opera Brava, Britain’s leading outdoor touring opera company, will present the Marriage of Figaro, probably the most perfect and popular opera.   In this joyful farce we witness the foibles and intrigues used to…

The famous SCARYCROW TRAIL has been running for over 10 years and causes great excitement amongst visitors and locals. Follow the trail of weird and wonderful ‘Scarycrows’ around the villages, awarding them scores as you go. Pick up a score sheet from one of the village shops, the railway or the Visitor Centre. Hand in…