07 Feb 2024
Trentham lists 28 reasons to love the historic attraction this leap year, and launches opportunity to WIN a Trentham Guidebook by submitting the top reason visitors love Trentham.
The brand-new Trentham Guidebook has been commissioned to mark 20 years since the attraction re-opened to the public after a massive regeneration programme by St Modwen.
Usually the shortest month of the year, February 2024 will have an extra day added to the calendar due to the leap year. Trentham are honouring the occasion with discounted Day Entry tickets, allowing visitors to enjoy their bonus day exploring their award-winning gardens, strolling through SSSI woodland, wildlife spotting and so much more.
Throughout February, Trentham will be celebrating '29 Reasons to Love Trentham', and for each day of the month they will highlight their top things to do and explore within their 725-acre estate. Trentham invites you to enjoy your extra day this year with them, offering up to 15% off Day Tickets with their Winter Saver offer.
The 29 Reasons to Love Trentham
Trentham boasts spectacular natural beauty and offers one of the UK's most diverse days out, with a range of leisure activities on offer for all ages all year round. Here's the visitor attraction's 29 Reasons to Love Trentham.
- Explore the Visit England gold accolade gardens
- Discover Fairy Quest designed by Robin Wight at FantasyWire
- Take a wildlife cruise on an electric catamaran
- Dine out in style at the Dining Pods
- Shop in a unique outdoor shopping village
- Play time on the adventure playground
- A Eurasian Beaver family live in the lake
- Home to Blue Diamond Group's flagship Garden Centre
- 140 free roaming Barbary macaques at Monkey Forest
- Stroll through glorious ancient SSSI woodland
- Home to Trentham Live and Trentham Summer Concerts
- Enjoy a Makers Market every third Saturday
- Get lost in a Hide and Speak Maze
- Offers an idyllic wedding setting
- Ride on Trentham Fern Miniature Train
- Take on Trentham Park Run
- Stroll beneath the historical Loggia
- Plenty of places to picnic in the gardens
- Naturalistic weaves of grasses at Rivers of Grass
- Dine out with a wide choice of restaurants and cafes
- Walk through the Rose Trellis
- Enjoy a break at Lakeside Cafe
- Brave a barefoot walk
- Over 1 million bulbs planted for Spring
- Look up in awe at Perseus and Medusa
- Offers free parking, including electric charging points and Tesla Superchargers
- See Jacobs, Hebridean and Herdwick lambs being born in Spring
- Embark on Pawfect Walks
- Trentham are offering you the opportunity to name the 29th reason, what will you choose?
Winning Opportunity!
Trentham is offering visitors the opportunity to name the 29th reason to love Trentham this February, with 10 entries winning a copy of Trentham's new Guidebook. To enter, simply head to their website https://bit.ly/LoveTrenthamCompetition and submit your entry by Tuesday 27th February. Winners will be announced on Trentham's social media channels and contacted on Thursday 29th February.
Mel Lewis, Head of Visitor Welcome and Sales said:
“We welcome thousands of people to Trentham every year, and we know this place is special to so many. Whether it's shared special occasions, or where their parents met, I love hearing everyone's stories and can't wait to see what people say!”
Planning to Propose on Leap Year?
A Leap Day tradition comes to the us from Ireland. According to Irish traditions, women are allowed to propose to their suitors on 29th February, but that only comes once every four years! Follow traditions and make the most of this unique opportunity, Trentham lends itself perfectly to the picturesque wedding setting that many couples dream of. From a fairytale garden wedding and civil ceremony in their stunning listed Loggia to a barefoot hand tying ceremony down by the lakeside, they create bespoke wedding packages tailored to your ideas. For more information on Weddings at Trentham, visit the website.
Up to 15% off Day Tickets throughout February with Winter Saver
Visit Trentham in February and take advantage of their Winter Saver offer. Trentham day entry tickets have been discounted by up to 15% throughout the whole of the month, allowing visitors to enjoy that extra day making special memories with their loved ones. Plan your visit here, https://bit.ly/TrenthamWinterSaver
The Winter Saver offer is applicable to day ticket purchases only and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.
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For more information, media competition/giveaway tickets, or images, please contact Nicky Jones (PR & Content Executive) on 07971 058634 or email nicky.jones@trentham.co.uk or marketing@trentham.co.uk
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About Trentham
Trentham, in Staffordshire, offers one of the UK's most diverse days out with a range of leisure activities for all ages.
It's one of the country's top leisure destinations, attracting more than 4m visitors per year. Trentham was awarded Gold in VisitEngland's Visitor Attraction Accolades for 2022-2023, recognising the high-quality visitor experiences on offer.
In 2023, Trentham welcomed a family of beavers into their 182-acre enclosure and parkland lake setting – the biggest of its kind in the UK. In the summer, it was announced that the female beaver welcomed a litter of 2 kits, highlighting the success of efforts in providing these 'ecosystem engineers' with a suitable landscape. Throughout 2023, Trentham welcomed 814,664 visitors into its gardens.
At the 2022 Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism & Good Food Awards Trentham also won awards for Large 'Visitor Attraction of the Year' and 'Resilience and Innovation' having demonstrated innovation, resilience and adaptation, along with support for its local community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trentham is steeped in history and a famous landmark in the region. An important place for the local community, a place for sanctuary, reflection, and inspiration.
Attracting visitors far and wide, Trentham delights in welcoming multi-generational families – grandparents, parents, children, loved ones and friends come together to explore the landscape, spot the wildlife, take inspiration from the gardens, and experience the array of activities and event on offer.
Owned and managed by St. Modwen, the expert developer and regeneration specialist, the 725-acre estate, which was previously owned for over 400 years by the Dukes of Sutherland, has undergone a massive regeneration programme since 2003.
The famed Trentham Gardens includes the very important Italianate Gardens designed by Charles Barry in the 1830s, which have been lovingly restored using top landscape designers. The gardens feature the UK's first 'barefoot' walk, as well as a fantastic children's adventure play area and maze, and a beautiful walk around the mile-long lake, originally laid out by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in the 18th century. Trentham is also home to Trentham Garden Centre and the expanded Shopping Village, an eclectic mix of shops and eateries with a 119-bedroom Premier Inn Hotel.
Trentham is a conservation and biodiversity hotspot, with the Monkey Forest offering visitors the opportunity to walk amongst 140 free roaming Barbary macaques, in a natural woodland environment for this endangered species. Trentham boasts extensive woodlands with the formal conservation designation as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), with the wider estate providing grazing for rare breed herds and wild black fallow deer and most recently the reintroduction of endangered water voles.
