Pick up a Trail Form from any of the  D49 attractions and  follow our Scarecrow Trail around Blakemere and along the A49 into Tarporley  village, completing the name of each scarecrow as you go. Then solve an  anagram before returning your forms to enter  our fantastic Prize Draw to  win amazing prizes including:   Lunch [...]

Here’s a shortlist of just a few of many things happening at D49 at the start of the 2011 season. Please visit the attraction websites for full details. Blakemere events: 2nd April               - SupaGolf: The game of golf everyone can play! SupaGolf reopens for the 2011 Season 16th April             - Pottery Activities, Crafty [...]

Find the scarecrows at D49

Saturday 16 October 10am               The Hollies would like to invite you to our Celebration of Great British Food. We have brought together the Country’s leading and most mouth watering food producers. – Lots of lovely tastings. – Meet the local producers. – Celebration of our Pumpkin Harvest – in excess of 3000    on show. – [...]

By Jane Burkinshaw Weather forecast for Good Friday: “Cold, changeable and risk of heavy downpours”. Typical! What to do with two over-excited offspring plus holidaying friends with two more equally energetic youngsters? A combination of school, TV and shop windows has hyped my kids up into expecting Easter to be an idyllic time of hunting for [...]

   Due to the extremely high standard of the Easter egg designs – decorated by local primary school children – it has been confirmed that the Mayor of Northwich, Helen Burder will be attending Blakemere Craft Centre on Friday, April 2 at 3.15pm to judge the designs and name a winner!!!

A week tomorrow ….8 Days……Easter is on it’s way and so is the D49 Easter Egg Hunt on Good Friday!!

FAMILIES are being invited to crack Cheshire’s longest Easter egg hunt this April. Attractions and businesses along the A49 – stretching from Sandiway to Tarporley – have joined together to provide a full day of fun on Friday, April 2. Anyone wanting to take part in the event will be asked to make a donation to CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). The charity was chosen after an appeal for support from the headmaster and children at Eaton Primary School, in Eaton near Tarporley.