Lydiard House & Park for the community - as gifted by Francis Elliott Akers

25/05/2021

Keen photographers of all ability around Swindon & Wiltshire!! There’s still time to enter this lovely competition

Our Photo Competition is almost upon us; the deadline is TOMORROW (26th) evening!! Please send your submissions to [email protected] - remember, it should be high-res & in landscape format; otherwise it won't fit on the front page of our website www.wbct.org.uk where we post the winners each month!
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07/05/2021

Absolutely wonderful to see this festival set to take place at Lydiard Park this summer.

What a fabulous line up too especially as along with some incredible headliners, it features the leading bands from the Swindon area ❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️Live at Lydiard

Well... here it is. The lineup you've all been waiting for! 💥

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: http://liveatlydiard.co.uk/

We are feeling unbelievably proud to be welcoming Anne-Marie, Dizzee Rascal!, Clean Bandit, Pete Tong, Joel Corry, Sean Kingston, MistaJam + many more incredible acts to the first Live at Lydiard festival on 21st August this summer! 👌

To celebrate this massive moment, we're giving you the chance to win a £100 bar tab, a taxi to and from the festival (within a 10 mile radius of Swindon) and £50 worth of food vouchers to spend in our festival food court. All you have to do to enter this competition is 'Like' this photo and tag 3 friends in the comments that you would share this prize with. Good luck! 🤞

Ticket sales are well underway so make sure you grab yours early to avoid disappointment. Once they're gone they're gone! ⏰

(Winners of this competition announced on Friday 21st May at 6pm)

02/05/2021

Great-Grandaughter of Francis Elliott Akers features in this month’s Wigwam Property News talking about Lydiard House and Park, the full feature can be read online

26/12/2020

Mayor Francis Elliott Akers’ Christmas card as Mayor, featuring Lydiard House & Park which he gifted to the community

06/11/2020

Following recent guidelines, we would like to remind you that Lydiard Park remains open.
Please remember to follow social distancing rules at all times.
Exercise or recreation can be alone, with members of your household, or with one other person from outside your household, while keeping two metres apart at all times.

Our Cafes continue to offer takeaways, and our toilets are still open and operating on our enhanced cleaning regime. Please note that the toilets will be closed twice a day during cleaning.
Gates at Hook Street close at 5pm .
The children’s play area, historic house and Lydiard Hotel remain closed.
The Field of Remembrance in the walled garden will be open to the public from Sunday 08/11/20 to Sunday 22/11/20, 11.00 to 16.00. (Please note it does not open until 11.15am on the 08/11/20).
Thank you for your continued support.
Best wishes,
Lydiard Park

09/08/2019

The Rainbow Flag at Lydiard House

The manor house, known as Lydiard House or Lydiard Park

Thank you to Intercom Trust & Exeter Pride for lending us the flag for Swindon & Wiltshire Pride.

24/06/2018

‪The perfect ending to a perfect week and the perfect way to end National Picnic Week Lydiard Park with Fortnum & Mason Fentimans Ltd Official Rodda’s Cornish Clotted Cream

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25/03/2018

Georgina Akers-Spencer (Great-Granddaughter of Francis Elliott AKERS) shares a birthday with a historical Lydiard House Resident (and spent part of her childhood with the same surname, she was known as Georgina Spencer in the 80s and 90s). Lady Diana Spencer was born on March 24th 1735, Georgina was born on the same date......but some years later!

Lady Diana Spencer of the 1700’s was an artist well known for a drawing of her friend and cousin Lady Georgiana Spencer (who was a good friend of Marie-Antoinette), Georgiana Spencer was famed for her beauty, sense of style, her political campaigning, as well as her love of gambling. She gathered around her a large salon of literary and political figures.

04/03/2018

Lydiard House & Park in the snow ☃️ Well done to the staff at Lydiard Park & SBC for keeping the Forest cafe open most of Friday in the snow & all day yesterday. Huge thanks to Shaun Dunham for footage

After the Beast from the East we have the Beauty From the West.

04/03/2018

Lydiard House & Park in the snow ☃️ Well done to the staff at & SBC for keeping the Forest cafe open most of Friday in the snow & all day yesterday. Huge thanks to Shaun Dunham for footage
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After the Beast from the East we have the Beauty From the West.

04/03/2018

‪A huge well done to the staff & Swindon Borough Council for keeping the Forest cafe open most of Friday in the snow & all day yesterday 😀☃️🌲 ‬