Kimberley Hall

03/09/2024

Come join us for an opportunity to look around Kimberley Hall and to find out more about how weddings and events run.

✨️Special offers available for those attending ✨️

To confirm your attendance, please visit - http://www.countyweddingevents.com/kimberley-hall-wedding-show

30/08/2024

Kimberley Hall, built in the 1700s and set in 700 acres of parkland, is hosting a County Wedding Events’ show on Sunday 15th September 11am-3pm!
Pre-register for the event now: www.countyweddingevents.com/kimberley-hall-wedding-show

Suppliers at this event you'll want to meet!
Bright and Beautiful Flowers
Brunetti Artistry MUA
Jonathan Trumbull & Hatters
Kings & Queens Fun Casinos
Liz Bishop Photography
Love Wedding Cakes
Lunar Stretch Tents
Oops A Daisy Florist Drayton
Perfect Moment Cake Design
Photo Booth Express
Smooch - Wedding Rings by Appointment
The Iced Vegan
Tim Stephenson Photography
Kerri Kelf - Travel Counsellors

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086510649576 (A Little Bird Told Me Ceremonies)
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076209691815 (Ellenbury Ribbon Roses wedding Bouquets.)
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064128065575 (Peaky Pizzas)
www.filmkinetics.com
https://www.instagram.com/naomicollins_vocalist

05/08/2024

📆 Save the date 📆
We're excited to announce County Wedding Events' autumn show season is fast approaching! Here's a date to add to your diary: SUNDAY 15th SEPTEMBER 2024 - when you can visit the Kimberley Hall wedding fair!
Pre-register your attendance now: www.countyweddingevents.com/kimberley-hall-wedding-show

07/07/2024

After the rain, the cloud, the wind, the sunshine that all intermittently graced our recent events, weddings and two 21st parties, particularly this last week (which we really should post photographs of) we thank you for appearing this evening 🌈💫💖🙏

15/06/2024

Happy Birthday to His Majesty King Charles III who celebrates his official birthday today!

In the light of His Majesty's love of oak trees we'd like to mark this special occasion by featuring this magnificent ancient oak at Kimberley Hall (photographed by Adrian Houston), which is included in the authoritative book 'Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape' by renowned botanist and author Aljos Farjon. Aljos is also honorary research associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew who consider Kimberley to be home to Norfolk's finest collection of ancient oaks; one of which the Veteran Tree Association has dated back to 1373!

We now have beautiful sturdy young saplings from these ancient trees and are very much looking forward to welcoming Aljos to Kimberley next week to see the mighty oaks again.

To wisdom, grace, strength and fortitude🥂

04/06/2024

We look forward to welcoming and who are hosting 'Cars at Kimberley', a day of cars, music and food.

27/05/2024

Missing the wisteria and
Its exquisite scent but the rhododendrons are in bloom and looking glorious 💜

29/04/2024

Congratulations to Isobel and Will whose wedding we hosted on Saturday. They certainly knew how to have a fabulous time captured in this photograph by 🎉💃🕺

12/04/2024

Spring is finally in the air and forever in the step of our amazingly talented Blues singer, songwriter cousin and Norfolk hero Dana Gillespie whose latest album (we have lost count) is with another legend, Marc Almond 💚

29/02/2024

We are looking forward to welcoming you all again to Kimberley Hall. Please remember to pre-register in advance by following the link www.countyweddingevents.com/kimberley-hall-wedding-show Refreshments available on the day between 11am-3pm💫

Register now for the Kimberley Hall Wedding Show on 24 Mar 2024. Fast track the registration queue and enter our amazing competitions

25/02/2024

Today we'd like to commemorate the birthday of an unsung local hero Priscilla Buxton, born in 1808, whose remarkable efforts we highlighted last year on International Women's Day. Priscilla was co-secretary of the London Female Anti-slavery Society with fellow abolitionist Amelia Opie, and was the daughter of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, known as the 'Liberator', chosen by William Wilberforce to head the campaign to abolish slavery after he retired. Sir TFB also worked to end the death penalty and suttee, the Hindu practice of women sacrificing themselves on their husband's funeral pyre and was the founding chairman of the RSPCA.

Although Priscilla worked for the anti-slavery society alongside her father, as a woman she was not allowed to join the society so could only hear him speak through a ventilation shaft. After the Slave Trade Act of 1807, the Anti-slavery Society was determined to bring an end to slavery itself. Priscilla's efforts with Amelia Opie were instrumental to the cause, bringing the first and largest petition against slavery to parliament in 1833 by women (187,000). She and Amelia were the first two signatories

Priscilla's maternal aunt, another local hero, was Elizabeth Fry (born Gurney) of Earlham Hall where Priscilla was born. Fry's reform of prisons is well known, which Sir TFB helped to fund, and she highlighted not only the plight of female prisoners but that of their children often incarcerated with them. Fry and Sir TFB both feature on the reverse of the old £5 note set in Newgate Gaol, and their work is commemorated by various monuments including this moving tribute to TFB in Sierra Leone.

The work of Priscilla, Amelia and other female anti-slavery activists is less well known; likewise the influential writings of Mary Prince, Olaudah Equiano,
and Ignatius Sancho describing their experiences of enslavement. Without the opportunity to vote they harnessed the power of the pen in their attempts to abolish slavery with a petition that despite its magnitude was mocked by Parliament. Priscilla died aged 44 but in her short life achieved so much. She married Andrew Johnston, a fellow abolitionist on 1st August 1834, a date chosen to coincide with the majority of slaves being freed in the British Empire. Amelia died aged 84, having published numerous books and collections of poetry.

Today we'd like to remember them and acknowledge their role in supporting the abolition of slavery. Listen to the insightful podcast 'Empire 67: Slavery's Demise' by William Dalrymple. Dr Alison Dow will also be giving a talk 'The Remarkable life of Thomas Fowell Buxton: the 'Liberator' this Thursday at the Forum in Norwich with another scheduled for 22nd June

14/02/2024

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY to you all! Wishing for love and peace in this world ❤️💕❤️

11/02/2024

Good evening from Norfolk on a chilly February day enlightened by this glorious sun breaking through the blanket of clouds and setting over the lake. The ever changing sky will always be the greatest show on earth 💙

03/02/2024

Love the light this time of year and this room with its beautiful view of the lake. We hold off drawing the curtains until long after the sun has set and the dusk has settled 💫

29/01/2024

This beautiful view of the spiral staircase, captured quite by chance, is the first in our series of 💙

22/01/2024

Our beautiful trees reflected in the recent flooding. We love the long shadows cast this time of year and the neverending glory of our Norfolk sunsets 💚

21/12/2023

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas from everyone at Kimberley Hall 🎄
Looking back at Olivia and Henry's Christmas wedding last year, we love a winter wedding!

Photographer

18/12/2023

Evening light in norfolk

07/12/2023

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas 🎄

01/11/2023

Wishing you all a happy Halloween with this spectacular projection on the hall by Paul Reynolds of SP Projects! 🎃👻🎃

18/10/2023

💥 EXHIBITOR ALERT 💥

Kimberley Hall is one of the finest wedding venues in Norfolk, built in 1712, and a much-loved family home. Situated on the ‘hill at Downham’ in an Arcadian landscape designed in 1778 by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, the house overlooks a substantial 15-acre lake and the River Tiffey valley.

The 18th-century rooms in the Hall and West Wing offer a combination of traditional grandeur with a unique, stylish entertainment space incorporating a contemporary bar area and a state of the art lighting system that can be adapted to complement your event. Kimberley has the flexibility to be whatever you want it to be; a blank canvas upon which to exercise your creative energy. The only limitation is your imagination.

Weddings are occasions when privacy really matters and there should be no compromise on style or aesthetics. The south front of the house provides a romantic, private and idyllic setting with its breathtaking view of the extensive parkland, lake and ancient oaks. The Music Room, where the wedding ceremony traditionally take place, is a light and elegant space with historic plaster work that connects onward to the garden via a beautiful spiral staircase capped by a coffered dome. The garden may be accessed additionally via a hexagonal room adjacent to the Music Room that links to the stylish West Wing entertainment space via a spacious curved colonnade and contemporary bar. Your ceremony may also take place as a Duo ceremony on the rear manicured lawn.

Meet their wedding team at The Newmarket Wedding Show November 2023. Pre-register online now >>
www.mjr-events.co.uk/register-online

04/10/2023

Have you booked your Christmas party yet? 🎄 we have availability in December!

25/09/2023

Looking back to Sarah and Ollie’s wedding here over the August bank holiday 😀 an amazing video from Steve Hood Films - Wedding Videographer

03/09/2023

Join us at The Forum today, here until 3pm.

03/09/2023

Here at The Forum, Norwich until 3pm

02/09/2023

Come and discuss your wedding or event with us at The Forum, Norwich tomorrow.

Join us THIS SUNDAY at The Stunning Autumn Wedding Fair 2023 at The Forum, Norwich from 10am until 3pm! Free glass of Adnams fizz upon arrival for the first 150 couples * Free goody bag! * Free entry!

Have you pre-registered yet? Pre-Registration closes at 8pm Saturday evening! It is still possible to register on the day at the show.
www.mjr-events.co.uk

* one per couple subject to availability

24/08/2023

Thank you all for coming along to the here at the weekend, what a beautiful day for it ☀️

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20/08/2023

Still time to come and join us, closes at 3pm. Fancy tea in the garden in the sunshine?

07/06/2023

A day filled with love 🤍 A stunning summer wedding captured by

06/06/2023

We're looking forward to our event at on 20th August! Free entry!

Spaces still available for food and craft stalls!

Email [email protected] for more info!