Dalemain Estate for the Marmalade Festival

The Dalemain Estate, a historic mansion surrounded by beautiful gardens within a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the home of The Dalemain World Marmalade Awards.

The awards began in 2005 with an idea to celebrate community, educate through cooking, champion marmalade makers and raise money for charity. Over the years the festival has been joined by marmalade makers spanning generations, from Taiwan to Brazil, Norway to Northern Ireland, India to Argentina. At the festival, hundreds of volunteers run a competition to find the best marmalade in the world.

The mansion itself contains a nationally important collection of furniture, ceramics and art along with everyday objects from the past and an award winning, plantsman's garden. The Romantic parkland and gardens at Dalemain sit within the rugged splendour of this sublime landscape with the high fells of the Lake District or the far Pennines around. Here, it is easy to enjoy the splendour of this World Heritage Site. The garden is well known having won the Historic Houses Garden of the Year Award, sponsored by Christies in 2013.

Discover the beauty of the lush Gardens and Estate, where breathtaking landscapes and historic architecture await, as you immerse yourself in the vibrant atmosphere of the world-famous Marmalade Festival.