1820s Pockerley

Pockerley Old Hall

Visit the ‘new house’ – the home of the tenant farmer – and the ‘old house’, which dates back to at least the 1440s. Look out for traditional Georgian cooking and craft activities.

Pockerley Gardens

This beautiful terraced garden features Georgian-era plants, herbs and vegetables, which can often be sampled in recipes cooked in the hall.

Drovers Tavern

As well as offering a place for visitors to rest and enjoy Georgian inspired food and drink, the tavern tells the story of droving.

Droving was the movement of livestock, usually cattle or sheep, to market. Drovers would walk livestock over long distances, delivering stock to market and returning with the proceeds from the sale of the animals. Taverns and inns were opened along droving routes to provide shelter, rest and sustenance for tired drovers.

Visit the Drovers Tavern to dine like Georgians from the tavern’s menu, which is inspired by popular Georgian food and drinks, including potted ham, rarebit, soup, stew and salmagundi (a Georgian salad).

Georgian Pottery

Learn about cottage industries in at the Georgian pottery which tells the story of a small, independent potter who would have produced wares to be used locally by local people.

The Georgian potter would have produced domestic items such as bowls, pancheons, beakers and candlesticks. They would also be able to make small quantities of bricks and possibly pantiles for local buildings as well as drainage tiles for farmers’ field drains.