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| Lots of spooky Halloween fun for all the Family in East Sussex and West Sussex. Scary Pumpkin Craving, haunted houses, frightful fancy dress, make spooky halloween decorations, gripping ghost stories, horror movies, ghost tunnel, trick or treat cauldron, Witch's House, hair-rising lantern lit spooky trails and lots more....................... |
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| FREAK WEEK FRIGHT NIGHTS at The Hop Farm |
Location: Paddock Wood, Kent | Tel: 01622 872068 |
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| SPOOKTACULAR FUN BY DAY! at Tulleys Farm |
Location: Turners Hill, Crawley, West Sussex. | Tel: 01342 718472 |
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The UK’s No 1 Halloween family attraction is back this Half Term! Climb aboard the Horrid Hayride, enter the Creepy Cottage or solve the Circus Maze. Younger guests can explore the Boo Barn or follow the Spooky Trail. Entry into the park is free and includes children’s shows, and the daily fancy dress parade. For further information and online saver tickets visit www.halloweenattractions.co.uk. The Halloween event for children at Tulleys Farm is open from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm, from 22-31 October (at night we turn up the heat for terrifying scares with Shocktober Fest!). Address: Tulleys Farm, Turners Hill Road, Turners Hill, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 4PE. |
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| Spook-tacular Fun this Halloween at Drusillas Park |
Location: Alfriston, East Sussex | Tel: 01323 874100 |
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Between Saturday 22nd and Monday 31st October, Drusillas have conjured up some fang-tastically spooky surprises to keep your little horrors half term happy. Venture through the creepy cobwebbed corridors of The Haunted Cottage into the terror-tory of Winifred the witch, as she plays hide and shriek with the unsuspecting public! Visitors can also jump aboard Thomas the Tank Engine to complete the Pumpkin Challenge and experience a hair-raising haul through the Spooky Tunnel. With all this, plus the usual animal magic it’s well worth hopping on your broomstick and flying to Drusillas. Address: Drusillas Zoo Park , Alfriston, East Sussex , BN26 5QS. |
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| Halloween Festival at Marwell Wildlife |
Location: Winchester, Hants | Tel: 01962 777407 |
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Come along and enjoy the wonders of nature this half term at our spooky Halloween Festival. Design your own pumpkin carving in our creative crafts area and visit our eerie maze where you can listen to tales of the unexpected with our scary storyteller and enjoy special bug encounters. The Halloween festival is FREE with park entry. Book tickets online now, save 5% and jump the queue! Address: Marwell Wildlife, Colden Common, Winchester, Hants SO21 1JH |
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HALLOWEEN FUN IN SUSSEX 2011 - OCTOBER HALF-TERM |
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If you want to have the perfect Halloween you need to prepare well in advance. Get your Costume early, plan a trick-or-treating route to follow, get a great selection of Party Supplies for your house and get ready to have a perfect Halloween.
Angels Fancy Dress - Children's Halloween Costumes Fangtastic range of creepy costumes - Wonderful Witches, Ghosts & Vibrant Vampires, your sure to find the perfect costume for all your halloween needs.10% off first orders. Voucher code:
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| Did You Know - The real reason why costumes are worn on Halloween? While millions of us around the world wear costumes on the 31st of October very few actually know where the tradition actually stems from. The Ancient Celts believed that the gate between the worlds of the living and the dead was opened on the eve of New Years. - October 31st. The souls of the dead could cross onto the plain of the living for one day only, as ghosts. The only problem with this was that some of these ghosts were not too pleasant! They would destroy crops, houses and were even believed to murder those amongst the living who had befallen them during their lifetimes. In order to disguise themselves from these malevolent ghosts the Celts would don costumes made from Animal skins and heads! By doing this it was believed that the ghost would not be able to recognise them as living and believe that they too were spirits. So, there you have it, in the past costumes were worn for self-preservation while today we just wear them for fun! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
HALLOWEEN EVENTS IN EAST SUSSEX |
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Wear your Halloween fancy dress costume, experience a night of witch-crafts, spooky trails, and frightening face painting, fang-tastically spooky surprises, spooky creature hunts, gory ghost walks, bats, giant spiders, Tricks n treats, creepy castles, spooky challenges, creepy garden trails, pumpkin hunts, pumpkin craving, haunted cabins, forest of fear, headless horseman, frightening face painting,cobwebs and cast spooky spells.......... HALLOWEEN EVENTS FROM SATURDAY 22nd OCTOBER TO MONDAY 31st OCTOBER 2011 Drusillas
Park Spring Barn Farm Park Wilderness
Wood The Observatory Science Centre Michelham
Priory & Gardens Kent & East Sussex Railway Bodiam Castle Bateman's Alfriston Clergy House Halloween Ghost Walks on Beachy Head, East Sussex. Newhaven Fort Bewl Water Westows - Hove Blakers Park - Brighton Preston Manor - Brighton |
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ALL YOU NEED FOR A GREAT HALLOWEEN PARTY
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| Did you know - That Halloween is older than Christmas? Halloween dates back over 2000 years, to the times of the ancient Celts. They lived in an area which today makes up the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Northern France. The Celtic name of the holiday that we now celebrate as Halloween was Samhain (pronounced “sow-in”). However this name varied depending on regions - In Wales the name of the holiday was Hollantide, in Cornwall it was known as Allantide; and in Brittany it was called Kala-Goanv. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
HALLOWEEN EVENTS IN WEST SUSSEX |
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Wear your Halloween fancy dress costume, experience a night of witch-crafts, spooky trails, and frightening face painting, fang-tastically spooky surprises, spooky creature hunts, gory ghost walks, bats, giant spiders, Tricks n treats, creepy castles, spooky challenges, creepy garden trails, pumpkin hunts, pumpkin craving, haunted cabins, forest of fear, headless horseman, frightening face painting,cobwebs and cast spooky spells.......... HALLOWEEN EVENTS FROM SATURDAY 22nd OCTOBER TO MONDAY 31st OCTOBER 2011 Fishers
Farm Park Amberley Museum Petworth House and Park Borde
Hill Garden Pulborough
Brooks Nature Reserve Arundel
Wetland Centre Tulleys
Halloween Festival Holmbush Farm Weald & Downland Open Air Museum - Chichester Worthing Leisure Centre
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| The 19th century. This period saw the growth of Samhain from a small paegan festival into the world-wide celebration that marks Halloween today. The 19th Century was characterized with a new wave of immigrants from Europe, particularly the immigrants from Ireland, who were mainly responsible for developing the popular version of Halloween that we celebrate today. Taking inspiration from Irish and English traditions, newly arriving Americans began to dress up in different costumes: They also developed on the tradition of "souling" a tradition where Irish peasants would exchange cakes (soul cakes) for food or money. Of course when the Irish arrived in the new land thigs were not exactly easy for them and the harmless tradition became decisively more aggressive with tricks (vandalism) played on those unwilling to give treats. This pastime is where the tradition of Trick-or-Treating comes from. The 20th century changed Halloween from a mildly celebrated harvest celebration into a full blown international holiday. At the beginning of the century, Halloween parties were organized for both children and adults. Parties focused on foods of the season, games, and festive costumes, but the real explosion in the popularity of the holiday came in the 1950's - when the Baby Boomers were just... babies. From that point on Halloween has grown from strength to strength. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Halloween Today While Halloween has grown into the second largest national holiday in the USA in the UK (it's home) it continues to grow year on year. Across the United Kingdom and the majourity of Europe Halloween is celebrated with parties, games, and trick-or-treating all with great costumes and Halloween decorations. it is widely acknowledged that Halloween is the most creative of all holidays. There are always a plethora of impressive costumes that you will come across and you should expect to see your fair amount of witches, Devils, Zombies and Horror Film Costumes on a street near you come October 31st. You should also expect to see some amazingly creative haunted houses and a few dishes of delicious Halloween treats. However, the most important thing is that whatever you do - just make sure that you are having fun! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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