A popular event in the Chorleywood calendar is set to take place later this month with everyone welcome.
The Wassail celebrations at the Chorleywood Community Orchard will take place on January 31 at 6pm.
Wassailing in Chorleywood is an annual ancient winter tradition to bless the apple trees for a bountiful harvest, involving a torchlit procession, singing, making noise with pots and pans, drinking mulled cider, crowning a Wassail King and Queen and celebrating community spirit.
The procession is a candlelit walk from the Chorleywood House Estate car park into the orchard and kicks off the celebrations.
In promoting the event, organisers said: “A fun event for all the family that includes singing, swigging, sloshing, shouting together with hanging toast in the trees after beating them with sticks.
“All this is to encourage a good harvest for 2026, and it really works as proven by our bumper crop last summer.”
For more information, visit chorleywoodorchard.org.uk
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