Dunham Massey lights up for Christmas

A new Christmas trail is to light up Dunham Massey’s landscaped parkland, featuring over 100,000 lights and 22 individual scenes and installations.

Leading the project is Zoe Bottrell from Culture Creative, who has designed the popular festive trail, Christmas at Kew, which has seen more than one million visitors over the last four years.

She says: “It is a wonderful opportunity to be able to create an experience at a National Trust property. Working in a historical landscape creates its own challenges. From the vast amount of infrastructure, to getting hundreds of visitors into the gardens, whilst keeping them pristine in the midst of winter. It is my job to work with the team at the property to protect the landscape, making it a long careful and exacting process of design.”

The trail will lead visitors through the gardens, highlighting Dunham Massey’s rich horticultural history.

Visitors will experience a Meadow of Light featuring a sea of fibre optics and a Fire Garden that will glow with hundreds of flaming installations, as well as a giant mistletoe sculpture.

The great lake at Dunham Massey will also feature floating light installations.

Kirsten Warren, general manager at Dunham Massey, says: “I’m excited to see Dunham Massey in an entirely new light this Christmas and sharing this brand new experience with all our visitors.

“It’s been a dream of ours to light-up the grounds of Dunham at Christmas and we are delighted that Raymond Gubbay are helping us to make this dream a reality for our visitors. Events like this are important for us to continue to inspire people of all ages to enjoy the outdoors in news way and supports the work we do to look after Dunham Massey for generations to come.”

The event is open on December 1 until December 30.