Doddington Hall & Gardens

Season’s greetings from all of us at Doddington 🎄 We’re so grateful for your continued support, helping us to conserve and develop Doddington for future generations of visitors to enjoy✨ We’re closed 25-27 December and 01 January. Please check our festive opening times when planning your visit: https://lnkd.in/e-EntK3D Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.

Whilst we’re busy rewilding the land at #WilderDoddington, Oyster Heaven is busy seawilding 🌊 This festive season, give a gift that gives back to nature with this exciting opportunity to adopt a Mother Reef for your loved ones and help restore 100 oysters! 🦪 Help turn the tide…

Oink Oink! 🐽 This month in our #DoddingtonDiary podcast, we’re thrilled to introduce you to some more new arrivals to Wilder Doddington. Not ponies this time, but pigs 🐖 Meet our three new curly-coated Mangalitsa pigs, the latest additions to our team of ‘ecosystem engineers.’ Like our wild Exmoor ponies, rare breed Lincoln Red cattle and existing pigs, this new trio will be free to roam as their natural behaviours help shape the landscape 🌿 As they rootle the ground in search of tasty titbits like roots, grubs and fungi, they create vital new habitats and enrich the biodiversity of #WilderDoddington. Shortly after their arrival, Melvyn joined Isobel for an official introduction to these three little pigs as they embark on their exciting wilder journey. 🎙️ Listen now: https://lnkd.in/ejEnJk-f

What a load of rubbish! A huge thanks to the wonderful team of volunteers from the Environment Agency who joined our #WilderDoddington volunteers this morning for a huge woodland litter pick. This brilliant bunch have made such a difference for nature and we loved seeing all the satisfied smiles of a job well done 🌿✨ #naturerecovery #rewilding #wilding #litterpick #litterpicking #volunteering #wildlife #nature #noplanetb

THANK YOU! We had a great night celebrating at the Lincolnshire Life Magazine Taste of Excellence Awards 2024 last week. We are proud to announce that we won 3 awards… ✨ Best Wedding Venue -Doddington Hall ✨ Best Restaurant - Doddington Grain Store ✨ Best Tea or Coffee Shop - Doddington Tea Room We were also finalists for Best Farm or Local Shop and we received Gold Citations for Self Catering Accommodation, Producer, and Newcomer for the Grain Store. A huge thank you to everyone who voted for us, our customers, clients, suppliers and most of all our incredible teams across the estate who all contribute to making Doddington Hall a special place to enjoy. Congrats to all the wonderful Lincolnshire businesses - what a county 💫

Ready for an autumn adventure? 🍂 Join Melvyn Prior for the latest entry to our #DoddingtonDiary podcast… 🌳 Melvyn takes you on a hidden woodland journey at #WilderDoddington to uncover an exciting project with our Wilder team and special guest, Nigel from Hill Holt Wood. 🎃 Over in the Pumpkin Patch Sarah shares tips on how to make the most of your pumpkins this season. 🌱 Ellie is in the Kitchen Garden picking seasonal delights and sends Melvyn over to the Grain Store armed with squash to chat with Executive Head Chef Conrad about turning estate-grown produce into delicious dishes. 🎙️ Listen now: https://lnkd.in/e6SKi_7A

📢 Calling all landowners, managers and farmers - would you like to learn about rewilding, nature recovery and the processes and the finances underpinning it? We have an exciting opportunity coming up at #WilderDoddington specifically for landowners, managers and farmers who want to understand more about rewilding, rewetting and other ecosystem and social services that their land could perform and how such initiatives can be financed. Owners James and Claire Birch will be delivering the day with support from the Wilder team. The day will include a presentation, walking safari, lunch in the Grain Store showcasing our estate produce and insights into finances and funding. Wednesday 16 October, 10am-4pm Booking essential: https://lnkd.in/eQjYJ6b6 #landowners #rewilding #wilding #ecosystems #biodiversity #landmanagement #lincolnshire

JOIN OUR TEAM • We have a couple of exciting opportunities to join our Wilder Connections project. Do you want to be part of a groundbreaking project to reconnect the landscape, nature and people as part of an estate-wide nature recovery project? If you're passionate about nature and eager to be part of something special then we'd love to hear from you. 🌳 Wilder Connections – Conservation Advisor 🦋 Wilder Connections – Project Support Officer Both roles offer the chance to make a real impact on our journey to a #WilderDoddington. Find out more & apply: https://lnkd.in/ecJRS8q2 Closing date: 9am, Monday 7 October 2024 The Wilder Connections project is funded by a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund with additional support from Doddington Farms LLP and Anglian Water Services. #NationalLottery #HeritageFund #jobvacancy #jobopportunity #wilderconnections #wilderdoddington #lincoln #lincolnjobs #naturerecovery #conservation #projectsupport #rewilding

This year’s #SculptureAtDoddington exhibition has now come to an end and we’d like to thank all of our wonderful visitors for making it such an incredible summer. We’d also like to thank everyone involved in making the exhibition a reality: ✨ Curators David Waghorne & Kate McGovern of Sculpture Events ✨ All the local, national and international sculptors for their fabulous works of art ✨ Our lead sponsor RBC Brewin Dolphin, supported by Soper of Lincoln BMW with sponsors Roythornes Solicitors, Brown&Co LLP and MKM Building Supplies Lincoln ✨ Our Doddington Team, Knapton Wright, Instinctive Photography & Rick Nunn The generous involvement of many individuals and local businesses makes this exhibition possible, helps support the upkeep and conservation of the Hall and Gardens, and the careers of many sculptors.

We recently welcomed 15 Young Darwin Scholars to #WilderDoddington in partnership with The Field Studies Council. They spent a week immersing themselves in learning about the biodiversity of Doddington and the climate crisis 🌎 Together we explored the challenges we face, how #WilderDoddington is making a difference and the steps we can take to secure a better future for nature 🌿 Working with our experienced Wilder team the scholars gained hands on experience of freshwater invertebrate surveying, learned about grazing herbivores and their management, vegetation succession and met the Wilder Doddington keystone species. We are all inspired to see such bright minds committed to make positive change. We wish all our scholars the best in their future career choices. We are excited to see where their journeys will take them and hope to cross paths again in their professional capacities. #WilderWednesday #WildlifeWednesday #YoungDarwinScholarship The National Lottery Heritage Fund #NationalLottery #HeritageFund