Get together with family and friends at special places this Christmas.

Across Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire, we’ve got a real variety of Christmas experiences for festive family days out this year.

Every Christmas gift and seasonal treat you buy helps care for these special places, to keep them twinkling for many Christmases to come.

The spectacular one – Hughenden
‘12 days of Christmas’
21st November – 2nd January

• Seven swans a-swimming on a cascade of blue baubles on the parterre.
• Step through five giant gold rings into the fairy-lit manor.
• Aromas of sandalwood and cinnamon accompany a tour of sparkling trees and themed decorations.
• Sip scented hot chocolate or mulled cider in the stableyard surrounded by pearly baubles and festoon bottle lights. There’s even a milk churn fountain.
• Twilight openings, plus music and interactive performances on Saturdays, including of course, the dramatic sounds of 12 drummers drumming.
• Immersive storytelling sessions for pre-schoolers mid-week.
• Christmas make-and-do magic to fuel the festivity for little imaginations.

The cosy one – Greys Court
‘Together for Christmas’
26th November – 5th January

• This Christmas, our friends from Kidmore End School, Sport in Mind and our local Women’s Institute are helping us to create a glowing, gingerbread-scented Christmas.
• A garden twinkling with fairy lights and decorated with Christmas wreaths and giant, gift-wrapped presents.
• Children can scamper along the Woodland Animals Trail to work up an appetite for the tea room, full of treats and festooned with garlands created by Kidmore End schoolchildren.
• We’re decorating Christmas trees in the stableyard for the first time.
• Carols in the drawing room, traditional toys in the nursery and Lady Brunner’s gingerbread baking and available to taste in the kitchen.

The ultimate – Waddesdon
‘Christmas at Waddesdon’
12th November – 2nd January

• Christmas at Waddesdon is back with magical lights, the gardens aglow and with Christmas displays in the house for the first time since 2019.
• A new route through the East Wing with light installations.
• The Christmas Fair returns.
• New for this year is a Food Village to pick up delicious festive food and drink. Fair ends on 18 December.
• The Winter Light Trail sees the garden spectacularly lit up with colourful interactive light installations. Winter Light continues until 22 January.