The new Yuletide festive family experience is coming to Tatton Park Gardens this Christmas

A new festive family experience is coming to Tatton Park Gardens this Christmas.

Yuletide is a unique blend of an outdoor Christmas festival and winter light trail, and is based on festive folklore, ridiculous rituals and forgotten traditions.

It will run from Friday, November 24 until Saturday, December 23 on selected dates, with time slots between 3pm and 7.30pm. Tickets are on sale now at www.yuletide.org.uk (£12 for children, £20 for adults and free for under twos).

At the heart of Yuletide is the Yuletide Gathering, a unique take on a family festival at Christmas time. Families can wrap up warm around a glowing campfire to watch live musicians, listen to campfire stories, toast marshmallows and even watch impressive fire jugglers. There will also be food vendors serving up tasty festive treats and mulled wine.

Afterwards, visitors can walk a glittering light trail through Tatton’s famous gardens. There will be lit installations, interactive light effects, illuminated puppets and costumed characters along the route, including some winter witches who have captured the moon and the sun, and shapeshifting snow hares who will play tricks on passersby.

Families will even be able to crown their own ‘Lord of Misrule’, inspired by the Tudor tradition of appointing someone to be in charge of Christmas revelries.

Yuletide is created by the outdoor arts organisation Wild Rumpus, which runs the popular Just So Festival and has also produced The Lanterns at Cheshire Zoo for the past six years.

Rowan Cannon, director of Wild Rumpus, says: "We can't wait to bring Yuletide to Tatton this Christmas! It will be unlike any other festive event that families have been to. Christmas is the most magical time of the year for families;