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Events @ Elsecar The Earl’s Village of Iron & Coal:
Sunday Guided Tours
Sundays
Elsecar Master Builders! 27 January
10 | 24 February
The Visitor Centre 10 | 24 March
7 days a week | 10am - 4pm Meet at Visitor Centre at 2pm

Come to the Visitor Centre and make Lego
Join us for a guided tour that reveals the
creations inspired by Elsecar’s remarkable
story of Elsecar, its proud history and some
buildings and amazing inventions! We’ll be
of its very special places. Learn about the
taking pictures of everyone’s fantastic Lego
extraordinary things Elsecar made and special
creations to put on display.
moments in our remarkable past.
Elsecar is a remarkable village, Free drop-in activity. Free, donations welcome
transformed by Earls Fitzwilliam into
a thriving centre of iron and coal.

Few places in Britain have so many The village is surrounded by beautiful
reminders of its great industrial age: countryside, sloping hills and ancient
collieries, ironworks, cottages, a canal, woodlands, with plenty of paths and
steam railway, schools, pubs and cycle routes to explore and enjoy,
more, all dating back to Georgian and including the Trans Pennine Trail.
Victorian times. Friends of Hemingfield Colliery
At the Elsecar New Colliery, see the Saturdays
The Earl’s Workshops are now newly restored 1795 Newcomen 12 | 26 January
packed with a wonderful range of Beam engine - the oldest steam 9 | 23 February Meet the Engineers
independent retailers, cafés, an engine anywhere still in its original 9 | 23 March at Elsecar’s Great Engine
antiques centre and indoor children’s location and one of the world’s most Site open from 10am until dark Tuesday 12 February
play centre. It is also home to The important monuments to the industrial 1pm - 2pm
Ironworks, an exciting event space revolution. Enjoy a ride on the 1850 Help make history at this remarkable
Elsecar is home to the world’s oldest
which hosts gigs, craft fairs and much steam railway, which runs alongside. historic site, originally known as ‘Elsecar
steam engine still in its original location,
more. Don’t miss the Visitor Centre Low Colliery’.
a Newcomen Engine built in 1795. This
with fascinating films and displays
On our working days, we undertake February, expert engineers will be servicing
about the history of Elsecar.
site maintenance and restoration, share and testing the engine. Come along, meet
information and talk history in a friendly and them, see our engine up close and get
Elsecar Heritage Centre welcoming atmosphere. specialist insights into this extraordinary feat
Open 7 days a week • 10am - 4pm of engineering.
Opening Free | Contact us for more information
Times Elsecar Workshops are open all year round The site is open from 10am £4 per person
Please note that individual shops and businesses until light stops the fun! Places strictly limited.
within the Workshops have varying opening times. See www.hemingfieldcolliery.org See www.elsecar-heritage.com
for more information to book your tickets