News and Events from Chillingham Wild Cattle
This year's AGM is set to take place on the 10th July in the Minstrel's Gallery in Chillingham Castle, by kind permission of Sir Humphry Wakefield. Lunch will be served at 1.00pm with the actual AGM beginning at 2.00pm. Please could all those Members planning to attend book their lunch asap. Lunch can be booked here. After the formal business [...]
Nobody knows more about the Chillingham Cattle and their Park than Prof Stephen Hall. His first involvement at Chillingham was in the 1970s and he has been involved in various capacities ever since. Not only has he conducted much research in the Park, but he has promoted the Cattle and the Park as a research resource and co-ordinated much of [...]
Like most of the country, Chillingham Park has seen little in the way of proper rain since February. Fortunately, we have had occasional showers and not too much burning sun so the grass has kept growing through the summer. The streams have also kept flowing so the cattle have not been short of food and drink. As we come to [...]
At the recent AGM of the Chillingham Wild Cattle Association, Charles Bain-Smith was elected Chairman of the Association. This event was witnessed by his Mother who had traveled from Kent for the occasion. That is hardly an extraordinary event, except that his Mother is Lady Corisande Bain Smith (Ne Bennett), daughter of the 8th Earl of Tankerville and Violet, Countess [...]
Professor Stephen Hall will be traveling north from his home in Lincolnshire to attend the CWCA AGM. Following the meeting he has offered to lead a special tour for Members and visitors. Embark on an unforgettable adventure into the heart of Chillingham Park and walk in the footsteps of the Wild Cattle themselves. Guided by the unparalleled expert knowledge of [...]
This week we have taken delivery of a strange looking piece of new equipment. Do you know what it is? It is designed to be towed behind the Polaris. The wheels are just to make it easier to be towed to where it is going to be used. Then they can be detached and the barred cylinder can be [...]
We are delighted that a pair of Swallows found our Pavilion to their liking and are now busy rearing four chicks. Our visitors dont seem to bother them one bit, with both parents busily swooping in and out with food for their chicks. Sadly, returning swallow numbers seem to have declined over the last few years so it is particularly [...]
This July, we welcomed Ford School to Chillingham Park. The 45 children, and their teachers, learnt all about the inhabitants of the Park as well as finding out how to identify various plants and trees. This was the first time that we have been able to host a school party on an educational visit. Our new Visitor Pavilion contains the [...]
Here at Chillingham, we do like to offer our visitors some quirky items in our new Pavilion. We have just added these rather nice children's soaps to our range. They are locally made and each soap contains a fun creepy-crawly. Although perhaps not completely identical, each one in the range can relate to creepy-crawlies that live in the Park. Yes, [...]
We can now offer specialist Photography Tours. These tours are by arrangement with the Warden as Ellie or Rick will take you right in amongst the cattle in our Polaris Ranger. It can accommodate two guests and the tour costs £100. Out of hours, or out of season, we can take up to 5 photographers on tour (£50 a head) [...]
The Chillingham Bulls do fight on a regular basis and there are historic accounts of them fighting to the death. In more recent times, quite a few deaths have been attributed to fighting due to the visible injuries, but no such event has been witnessed - until now. On the 7th April, the Park Manager was approaching two bulls at [...]
This spring, the Warden has been busy planting 70 new trees within the Park. The planting was done to commemorate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. 50 oak and 20 beech were planted in very fine metal guards to protect them from the Wild Cattle and the Fallow Deer. The guards are firmly staked but time will tell if the [...]
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