Halloween at Home Farm

Halloween at Home Farm runs from Saturday 24 October to Sunday 1 November at Temple Newsam Home Farm in Leeds, with the farm open from 10:00 to 17:00 every day. It's an estate-wide Halloween trail that pulls in a few different things: quizzes, crafts, skeleton displays and pumpkin carving, all spread across the grounds rather than kept in one spot.

Home Farm itself is a working farm and one of the largest rare breed centres in Europe, so you'll find animals native to the UK like the Vaynol cow, the White Faced Woodland sheep and the Middle White pig. It sits on the Temple Newsam estate, which centres on a Tudor-Jacobean house built by Thomas Lord Darcy. That house was once the largest in Yorkshire, seized by Henry VIII in 1537 and later by Elizabeth I after Darcy married Mary, Queen of Scots. The 42-room mansion holds one of the country's finest decorative arts collections, with Tudor, Jacobean and Victorian interiors, spectacular wallpapers, Chippendale furniture and fine silver, all set in 1,500 acres of Capability Brown landscaped grounds. The farm also houses the Play Barn, an indoor adventure play facility in a restored 100-year-old cow byre.

The trail runs across the estate, so you'll be moving between the farm and the wider grounds to find the different activities. The pumpkin carving is one of the main draws, and the skeleton displays are scattered around for you to track down as you go. It's a good way to spend a few hours outdoors with the kids during the October half-term, and the Play Barn is there if the weather turns and you need to get everyone inside for a bit.

Entry is included in general admission, which is £9.00 per person, with under 3s free. The farm is open 10:00 to 17:00 from Saturday 24 October through to Sunday 1 November.