Restoration reveals 200+ year old wall paper: match available?

200+ year old wall paper uncovered in recent restoration work.

We have approached Farrow and Ball to see if we could use the same/similar pattern in future re-decoration.

Community Fun Ride Hosted by Farm

Drag hunting this morning.

NSH meet at this farm this morning for a drag hunt. They chased an artificial scent laid over a terrain earlier.

This traditional activity has evolved to exclude the controversial involvement of wild animals.

Secret Painting: exposed by decorators

Decorators applying wood preservative to a 300 year old door in the Tallet have exposed an old impression of a running fox on the door, which had previously been invisible! 

It’s these sorts of things that make restoration work here such fun.

More on this history of Soulton at http://www.soultonhall.co.uk/soulton/history.html 

Educational Acess Visits.

For many years now, we have been welcoming school kids and service users to the farm here for educational visits.

These are a free service, part of our commitment to environmental stewardship, along with the permisive footpaths etc we have created.

Info on participating farms all over the country at www.growingschools.org.uk

Miss World photo shoot in grounds.

Sponsors of this year's Miss World – Sandstorm – brought Jamie Lee, raining Miss Wales to Soulton last weekend. They are taking publicity stills here for the event in October.

Community Fundraisers: diary dates

In November and December Soulton will be supporting two community fundraisers, details in the posters below. 

The musical evening in particular is close to Soulton, as the organ has historic associations with this household: it was an Ashton gift in 1910 and Weston Church has assosiations with Soulton back at least as far as 1556.

BBC Radio 4: "Saving Species" covers water vole project including Soulton land

BBC Radio 4's "Saving Species" cover water vole conservation in a project including our own Soulton Brook and River Roden (it's about 18 mins in):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b014fd21

Harvest Home

Harvest Home.


Soulton Hall's own private farm's harvest is now home. Work planting next year's crops is now well in hand.

Work begins on Smartphone website

Now we have a QR code, work is underway to set up a streamlined wedbsite for smart phones and mobile devices, staring with this landing page: http://kimtag.com/soultonhall

Shooter's Lodge Refurbishment Nears Completion

Decorators will finish work on Shooter's Lodge later this week.  Earlier in the year, the house was re-roofed (along with two other cottages) and three new en suite bathrooms were added. 

New carpets across the whole house will be complemented by fresh furnature.

A new kitchen will also be added.

BBC Two's Escape to the Country -- return visit with Alistair Appleton.

Alistair Appleton and crew for BBC Two's 'Escape to the Country' departed this morning.

We expect the programme to go out in October 2011.

Soulton Gets QR code

Soulton Hall has just acquired a QR code.

This is a two-dimensional code, readable by dedicated QR readers, smartphones and, to a less common extent, computers with webcams.  In time this will be added to our printed matter, to make it easier to connect with these devices.

BBC Two's "Escape to the Country" set to return to Soulton

BBC Two's "Escape to the Country" are set to return to Soutlon Hall next week.


An episode featuring Soulton Hall shot in the spring is set to air in September.

56 Languages -- soultonhall.co.uk and translation tool

The addition of a web-basised tool to our website has now made the content avaible in 56 languages.

A new short video impression of Soulton

FarmStay UK and Podcasts have just put this short video about Soulton Hall together about us.

Harvest Begins

Tha farm began harvesting today. See a video of the farm's activities.

Victorian Soulton: a short film

A short slidshow of the remarkable collection of 1890s images we have of Soulton has been published to our YouTube channel.

It is embedded on the history page of our website.

Video of a special day

Damian Hall Photography have kindly shared this short video of a wedding here earlier this summer.  It can now be found on our website here.





Joanne and David | Soulton Hall Wedding Photography from Damian Hall on Vimeo.

More filming at Soulton...

A podcast shot by 'Podcats' for 'Farmstay' was filmed here on Wednesday. The video will be available via our website and this page soon.

Local Magazine Feature Soulton Hall

If you are local to us, there is a feature about Soulton's History in the 'Wemian' Summer edition, pp. 23-4. 

Unfortunately, there is no online edition.