During the visit groups can experience the life of the late Tudor or early Stuart Period in Monmouthshire. Up to sixty costumed characters will transport your pupils back in time... from the cool of the well house and dairy to warmth out on the hay meadows. They will be able to contrast the smell of fresh bread from the ovens with the odour of pigs and sheep, the sight of babies in moss diapers to grown soldiers drilling, the soft sounds of cauldrons bubbling on the fire to the splitting of logs at the charcoal burners. The stops you'll pass along your visit vary every year.
Pupils are transported back in time so convincingly that it has been known, in previous years, for them to offer to teach our labourers how to count and spell, and to beg their teacher to let them take the farm children home.
The chance to see, touch, and smell all this through a "hands-on" approach is "worth a year in the classroom".
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