Muncaster Press Releases

June 2008
Precious Family Heirloom Goes on Display for First Time

June 2008
New exhibition to reveal 800 year history of Muncaster

May
Woman wins competition to find Best New Stand Up Comedian

April 2008
Search for the Best New Stand Up Comedian

April 2008
Special Delivery at World Owl Trust

March 2008
Jamie Reed Visits Castle

February 2008
American Fool takes over at Lake District Castle

January 2008
Pennington family celebrate 800 years
at Muncaster in the Lake District

December 2007
Victorian Christmas Castle Tours

November 2007
Christmas Card Competition

October 2007
Muncaster Castle goes online in search of spooky evidence

September 2007
Muncaster's New Woodland Walk

September 2007
Ghost Story Competition

July 2007
Nationa Lottery Awards

June 2007
British castle opens up for virtual visitors in Second Life

May 2007
First barn owl chicks hatched in South West Cumbria

April 2007
New Campaign to attract more American visitors to North of England

March2007
Tom Fool's Day

June 2006
Japanese journalists go fishing for stories in the Lake District

June 2006
Winner behaved like a proper fool

A real Fool walked away with the big prize at the International Jester Tournament at Muncaster Castle in the Lake District on Thursday 1st June 2006.

April 2006
Castle starts search for new jester

Muncaster Castle is looking for a new jester. Home to the original Tom Fool, it is believed to be the only Castle in Europe that appoints a modern day jester.

April 2006
A Riot of Rhododencrons at the Gateway to Paradise

Muncaster Castle has announced exciting plans to develop new Kitchen, Herb and Physic gardens together with a Plant Centre.

March 2006
Castle gears up for a very foolish day

Muncaster Castle in the Lake District is preparing to celebrate April Fool's Day in a style befitting the home of the original Tom Fool.

January 2006
School for ghost hunters launched at 'haunted' castle

A new school for ghost hunters is being launched at a castle in the Lake District that is reputed to be one of the country's most haunted buildings.

December 2005
Spectacular lighting display gives Lake District Castle a touch of Christmas Magic

Anyone looking for some real Christmas magic should take a trip after dark during the festive season to the Lake District's most enchanted castle.

November 2005
A proper Fool becomes the North of England's first official jester

Muncaster Castle's first Fool for more than 350 years will become a member of the National Guild of Jesters at an official ceremony on Wednesday.

October 2005
Brave souls wanted for ghost research

An academic is looking for people to take part in his research on ghosts at Muncaster Castle in the Lake District, reputedly one of Britain's most haunted castles.

April 2005
British Guild of Jesters Challenge Northerners to put up or shut "are there no fools up North?"

The British Guild of Jesters claims to have identified the real North-South divide. After a six week search no one has yet entered a contest to find the North of England's only official jester.

March 2005
Top Attraction charms birds back into the trees

Staff at Muncaster Castle in the Western Lake District are working hard to encourage more than a dozen Grey Herons to build new homes after some of their nesting trees were blown down in January's storms.

Bleak House to Enchanted Castle

Muncaster in the Lake District has been the home of the Pennington family for at least eight hundred years but new research reveals that their time at the Castle nearly came to an aburpt end in the eighteenth century.

 

 

 

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