Open Doors, The Old Rectory, Hawarden

Name: Open Doors, The Old Rectory, Hawarden
Start: 2025-09-06T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-06T14:15:00+01:00
Location: The Old Rectory, Hawarden, CH5 3NR

Schedule

Sat Sep 06 2025 at 10:00 am to 02:15 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Old Rectory, Hawarden, CH5 3NR | Hawarden, WA

This year’s Open Doors theme is Researching the History of Houses. At our event you can listen to fascinating talks, look at displays and documents, and also go behind the scenes to where the historic Archives of the County of Flintshire are housed in environmentally-controlled, secure storage.
Join us for a fascinating glimpse into the past and find out how you can visit the Archives to research the history of your own house!
BOOKING REQUIRED FOR TALKS AND TOURS
10.00 am - First strongroom tour (45 mins)
11.00am – Eleanor Carpenter of Discovering Old Welsh Houses Group, Talk ‘Researching historic houses of Flintshire’
11.30am - Second strongroom tour (45 mins)
12.30pm – Dr Angie Sutton-Vane, Talk: ‘Plas yn Bwl (Caergwrle), The Rise and Fall of a Welsh Marches House’
1.00pm – Third strongroom tour (45 mins)
Booking tel. no. 01244 532364; e-mail: [email protected]