Tatton Park wins award

Tatton Park has been handed the Sandford Award for the seventh consecutive year.

The estate in rural Cheshire East is one of only 37 UK heritage attractions to receive this award in 2010, jointly managed by Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln and the Heritage Education Trust.

Winners were recognised at a special ceremony at The Houses of Parliament in February, hosted by Lloyd Grossman OBE and the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow MP.

Tatton Park’s learning department accepts more than 14,000 pupils a year, who engage in a wide variety of educational programmes set in and inspired by the historic buildings and grounds of the old hall, mansion, farm, gardens and parkland.

Tatton’s education team were externally observed and assessed before being given the award. The judge’s said: “The Education Programme at Tatton Park fully exploits the wide ranging heritage assets of the Egerton estate to provide high quality teaching and learning from Anglo Saxon times to the 1950s.

“A key strength is Living History and Tatton’s team of talented actors and interpreters continue to inspire both pupils and teachers and help deepen their understanding of both local and national history”.

For more information about the Sandford Awards visit: heritageeducationtrust