Goodrich Castle

Cauldrons at the ready! The spookiest time of year is here, and all this week we have Halloween crafts and daily costume competitions to keep your little ones entertained. ­¤æ╗ http://bit.ly/2CH2tu8

Halloween is almost here, and English Heritage is getting ready for some frightfully good fun this Half Term! Join us at Gruesome Goodrich where weŌĆÖll be pumpkin painting, swirly-snake making and more ŌĆō plenty to keep your little monsters entertained. ­¤æ╗
Gruesome Goodrich ┬Ę Sat 27 Oct - Sun 4 Nov http://bit.ly/2CH2tu8

Halloween fun for little horrors! Enjoy spooky crafts at Goodrich Castle this half term, as we show you how to make scary spiders, swirly snakes and more. Come dressed to thrill for the chance to win a wicked prize in the daily kids costume competition.
Tickets will be available to purchase at the castle on the day.

Want to see Roaring Meg blow up a caravan?
.....we thought so, take a look at the English Heritage YouTube channel:

Have you seen the timetable for our Fighting Knights event? This weekend, step back in time and experience the sights, sounds and smells of medieval England! http://bit.ly/FightingKnights

Buckets and spades at the ready! English Heritage has just launched a country-wide competition to build the ultimate sandcastle, in celebration of the 66 castles in its care.
Find out how to enter the competition, or get some inspiration from the sandcastle experts! The charity has just created this magnificent sandy stronghold at Dover Castle ŌĆö using real castle building techniques: http://bit.ly/lovecastles

A new English Heritage survey has revealed that children's earliest memories of castles are more likely to have come from fantasy, film and fiction, instead of a real-life visit. Time to reverse the trend! http://bit.ly/2KT7IYT

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! (and it's not a bat either....) This week, drone pilots have visited Goodrich to film 'a postcard from...' We'll share their video as soon as we get it, but in the meantime here is a birds eye view of out neighbors at Witley Court & Gardens from the English Heritage YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFOm8gowO jo

Journey back to medieval times with fighting knights and legends of old. Watch brave knights test their skills in combat, and get a flavour of medieval life as you try on armour, meet the castle fool, and take part in hands-on activities.
Buy tickets for this event online before Friday 3 August and receive 10% off! http://bit.ly/FightingKnights

On this day (June 7th) in 1942, RAF Halifax V9977 crashed 1mile south of Goodrich Castle killing all 11 on board - the plane was flying a test mission developing radar technology. The crew and scientists are commemorated in a memorial window in the castle chapel.

We have bats living at the castle, but this little chap was found hanging around inside one of our parasol umbrellas. We think it is a pipistrelle.

Have you read this months English Heritage young members magazine? Goodrich is featured in 'a day in the life...' as Squire Rufus learns about becoming a Knight in 1300

It's another sunny Saturday so we're firing up the BBQ at Goodrich Castle, why not join us and explore the castle?

Goodrich Castle ŌĆśstrikes the perfect balance between informative and authentic and better still, itŌĆÖs perfect for both dogs and children.ŌĆÖ Thanks Plutonium Sox for featuring us in your latest blog!

Would you like to join the team at Goodrich? ....imagine getting to say you work at a castle! We are currently recruiting - job descriptions and application forms can be found on the English Heritage website via the links below
Membership recruiter: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ŌĆ”/ŌĆ ”/jobs/job-search/job/ŌĆ”
Historic Properties Steward: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ŌĆ”/ŌĆ ”/jobs/job-search/job/ŌĆ”
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This place is wonderful, full of character & atmosphere, worth the walk & all the stairs up & down & delightful cafe at the end for a delicious cuppa

Smashing place, bit worried our visit was going to be controlled by the weather but it all held. Watched the demonstrations and loved the views. Make sure you get the audio commentary. Finally stopped at the caf├® for a light snack lunch after a couple of hours

One of the best castles we have been round for a long while, great access to the castle and most. We took the dog as well and he had a great time as well. Well worth visiting ’┐Į’┐Į

My husband and I visited this castle last May 2017. We really enjoyed our visit to the castle very interesting and stunning views. Lovely tea room friendly staff. Will visit agin Vanessa postings

Just spent a wonderful couple of hours here with the audio guide and then a brilliant chat about the castle with the staff in the shop. Well worth a visit.

It was our first visit, stunning views and well layed out information around the castle. Staff where friendly and very helpful and interesting session going on for the kids, Lovely coffee shop. Would definitely recommend a visit to anybody.

I had a lovely time at this wonderful places.

I am into history and love every aspect of it. Goodrich Castle was a wonderful experience as we were able to walk through and visualise going back in time imagining what life may have been like back then. Goodrich is located in the beautiful quaint area of Ross on Wye which added to the castles beauty. I would definately go back again

Great day out with the grandkids, staff very friendly and helpful. Sadly we missed the activities but still do much to look at, search for. The children were especially interested in the prison!! Thank you for a lovely day

Fantastic ruin yet still with lots of character. The history of the castle is well explained and access to the top of the keep tower is brilliant with wonderful views of the Wye valley. Good cafe and shop to boot. Well worth a visit.

Fabulous day out. Lovely, well preserved castle in well kept grounds. Friendly, informative staff and a cafe too. Dogs allowed, lots of places to have a picnic. Highly recommend. One tiny drawback, you need to pay for car parking (┬Ż1) even if you are an English Heritage member. No change? Don't fret, they can take payment via card in the shop.

Excellent historic site with loads of interesting history. Great staff and cafe too! Well worth a visit.

Enjoyed walking around this great castle, the audio tour was very good and was a bonus being free.

Friendly helpful staff.

Cafe was a bit overpriced, ┬Ż2.20 for a cup of Tea.

Well worth a visit.

Enjoyed a wonderful afternoon at Goodrich Castle which was enhanced by the complimentary audio guide. This made the whole castle come alive, with detailed information about its history and the families who had lived there.

Then a lovely cup of coffee and carrot cake to finish the afternoon served by very friendly and helpful staff. English Heritage have got this totally spot on. I hope the audio guides become available at more of their sites.

Came back for a second visit today with my two youngest sons and husband. Fantastic castle, absolutely excellent staff, so friendly and knowledgeable, shop has some truly beautiful things to buy, splashed out on a stunning sword today and had a lovely chat with the guy in the shop about swords and axes!

Highly recommend Goodrich castle, as far as castles go its pretty accessible even for my 2 autistic sons who have a lot of trouble falling over everything!

All in all a fantastic place to visit made so much better by such friendly and helpful staff.

Brilliant castle and lovely day out with my partner! Good facilities to accommodate all only thing I would change is having headphone with the device you walk around With arm Akes after a while but other than that amazing day

A beautiful Ruin, a historical dream, loved visiting and will be back - especially loved the audio guide and gift shop. But I think I left my sons blue coat there on Sunday in the restaurant can you please let me know as I have phoned and messaged and had no response. Thanks :)

We really enjoyed our time around the Castle only thing it was not wheelchair friendly and there was a Lady in her wheelchair waiting for her friend to go around but she couldn't even go to it, for the sake of making some ramps

Nice tea out at the Goodrich castle cafe yesterday

afternoon The staff could perhaps be a bit more cheerful and smile (might have been the hot weather) but apart from that, quality foods, quick service, clean loos, everything very good

This place is wonderful, full of character & atmosphere, worth the walk & all the stairs up & down & delightful cafe at the end for a delicious cuppa

Smashing place, bit worried our visit was going to be controlled by the weather but it all held. Watched the demonstrations and loved the views. Make sure you get the audio commentary. Finally stopped at the caf├® for a light snack lunch after a couple of hours

One of the best castles we have been round for a long while, great access to the castle and most. We took the dog as well and he had a great time as well. Well worth visiting ’┐Į’┐Į

My husband and I visited this castle last May 2017. We really enjoyed our visit to the castle very interesting and stunning views. Lovely tea room friendly staff. Will visit agin Vanessa postings

Just spent a wonderful couple of hours here with the audio guide and then a brilliant chat about the castle with the staff in the shop. Well worth a visit.

It was our first visit, stunning views and well layed out information around the castle. Staff where friendly and very helpful and interesting session going on for the kids, Lovely coffee shop. Would definitely recommend a visit to anybody.

I had a lovely time at this wonderful places.

I am into history and love every aspect of it. Goodrich Castle was a wonderful experience as we were able to walk through and visualise going back in time imagining what life may have been like back then. Goodrich is located in the beautiful quaint area of Ross on Wye which added to the castles beauty. I would definately go back again

Great day out with the grandkids, staff very friendly and helpful. Sadly we missed the activities but still do much to look at, search for. The children were especially interested in the prison!! Thank you for a lovely day

Fantastic ruin yet still with lots of character. The history of the castle is well explained and access to the top of the keep tower is brilliant with wonderful views of the Wye valley. Good cafe and shop to boot. Well worth a visit.

Fabulous day out. Lovely, well preserved castle in well kept grounds. Friendly, informative staff and a cafe too. Dogs allowed, lots of places to have a picnic. Highly recommend. One tiny drawback, you need to pay for car parking (┬Ż1) even if you are an English Heritage member. No change? Don't fret, they can take payment via card in the shop.

Excellent historic site with loads of interesting history. Great staff and cafe too! Well worth a visit.

Enjoyed walking around this great castle, the audio tour was very good and was a bonus being free.

Friendly helpful staff.

Cafe was a bit overpriced, ┬Ż2.20 for a cup of Tea.

Well worth a visit.

Enjoyed a wonderful afternoon at Goodrich Castle which was enhanced by the complimentary audio guide. This made the whole castle come alive, with detailed information about its history and the families who had lived there.

Then a lovely cup of coffee and carrot cake to finish the afternoon served by very friendly and helpful staff. English Heritage have got this totally spot on. I hope the audio guides become available at more of their sites.

Came back for a second visit today with my two youngest sons and husband. Fantastic castle, absolutely excellent staff, so friendly and knowledgeable, shop has some truly beautiful things to buy, splashed out on a stunning sword today and had a lovely chat with the guy in the shop about swords and axes!

Highly recommend Goodrich castle, as far as castles go its pretty accessible even for my 2 autistic sons who have a lot of trouble falling over everything!

All in all a fantastic place to visit made so much better by such friendly and helpful staff.

Brilliant castle and lovely day out with my partner! Good facilities to accommodate all only thing I would change is having headphone with the device you walk around With arm Akes after a while but other than that amazing day

A beautiful Ruin, a historical dream, loved visiting and will be back - especially loved the audio guide and gift shop. But I think I left my sons blue coat there on Sunday in the restaurant can you please let me know as I have phoned and messaged and had no response. Thanks :)

We really enjoyed our time around the Castle only thing it was not wheelchair friendly and there was a Lady in her wheelchair waiting for her friend to go around but she couldn't even go to it, for the sake of making some ramps

Nice tea out at the Goodrich castle cafe yesterday

afternoon The staff could perhaps be a bit more cheerful and smile (might have been the hot weather) but apart from that, quality foods, quick service, clean loos, everything very good