Blog (2023) - Visit Lancashire

A new food festival for Lancaster will take place on Friday 2nd June…Around the World Food Festival will be the Dukes theatre’s first ever food festival, as they open their doors to celebrate food and tastes from around the world. 

Spring has sprung and what better time of the year to get out and about in nature. The blossom is blooming and for around six weeks of the season Lancashire’s beautiful woodlands host a wonderful carpet of bluebells.

Bank holiday weekend is here and it’s the first of three this month! Make the most of this long weekend by checking out one of the many exciting events happening across Lancashire.

HAPPA (Horses and Ponies Protection Association) are hosting an evening of cocktails and fashion with local companies, Poison Ivy and Narazuke.

Ready… set… go! The annual duck race is returning to WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre on 1 May.

Olivier Award Winning show straight from London’s West End is coming to The Dukes on the 27th May 2023.

Blackpool Zoo’s penguins are ready to net fish and chill in their redeveloped £100k home.

Stonyhurst has announced its Museum and Archives will host an exhibition this summer, ‘Folio 400: A Summer of Shakespeare’, featuring its very own copy of the First Folio of William Shakespeare as part of the worldwide 400th-anniversary celebrations.

Kate Bush fans are invited to fling themselves around with wild abandon while recreating the iconic dance from the song Wuthering Heights in a Preston Park this summer.

There's plenty of exciting events taking place across the county this weekend. If you're looking for something to do, why not take a visit to Lancashire.