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On Hitched.co.uk since 2022

Last update: May 2025

Welcome to Holesfoot

Located in the magnificent countryside of the Eden Valley, nestled between the Lake District & Yorkshire Dales National Parks, approached by quiet country lanes, the nearest village is the picturesque rural community of Maulds Meaburn (1 mile), described by journalist Hunter Davies as ‘one of the most beautiful villages in the country’. The estate sits centrally within 20 acres of its own private grounds, with a mixture of formal and informal gardens, a lake, woodland and picturesque meadows to enjoy. We are determined to keep our wonderful wildlife haven safe and so we have created a perfect balance of re-wilding, and whimsical formality, up-keeping an environment that allows the deer, red squirrels, birds, hedgehogs, bees, and butterflies to live harmoniously alongside our events..

Our award winning wedding venue has five licensed locations to hold wedding ceremonies - The Barn, The Italian Garden Terrace, The Walled Garden Canopy, The Pond Jetty, & The Long Room.

We have space for over 50 guests to stay on site including The Manor House, The Cottages, & The Bell Tents.

At Holesfoot, our ethos has always been quality over quantity, our sustainable approach to our events mean that we will never be a conveyor belt venue, making your day so special & important to us, and well as to you.

We have been crowned The Best Wedding Venue in the North West 2025 by The Wedding Industry Awards, something we are so proud of!

We specialise in three day wedding weekends and two night mid week packages, as well as our beautiful Intimate Manor House wedding package that is becoming increasingly popular.

Please get in touch to arrange a visit, & for a copy of our wedding brochure which includes all of our pricing, & our up to date availability.

We can’t wait to show you the magic of Holesfoot!

A Holesfoot Wedding

Holesfoot is your home away from home, blissfully secluded and filled with luxuries that’ll make you want to stay forever! Wild and whimsical beauty surrounds every corner of the estate, spoiling you for choice on photo ops and set ups.

Your wedding can be exactly as you have always envisioned. Let’s start with the preparation day before. Treat yourself from the minute you check in! Mobile spa treatments in the bridal suite? Hot tub and Prosecco with the girls? Poker night in the undercroft with the boys? Takeaway and a cosy movie night to calm the nerves? Fine dining dinner party in the Long Room with your nearest & dearest? Pizza served in the garden? You can even have us knock you up a signature Holesfoot Mule for your own private cocktail night in the bar whilst doing your final bits of decorating and setting up.

Choose one of our stunning locations to say I do before drinks, music, and canapés on the front lawn overlooking the pond, or in the whimsy walled garden. You can get wed in the Italian garden, The Barn, one of the reception rooms of the beautifully renovated Grade II* listed Georgian-meets-Victorian manor house, in the walled garden, the bar & cosy under crofts, or even in the bluebell filled woodlands. Fancy a pianist, a string quartet, singer/guitarist? Do it!

There is so much space for activities such as garden games, rounders, archery or axe-throwing to spice up the day’s events. Why not have a photoshoot around the pond or even on our quaint little rowing boat, Tiggy-Winkle, surrounded by a wildflower meadow with the magnificent Manor House as your backdrop? Choose from an abundance of epically beautiful nooks and crannies, indoors and outdoors, to create that wedding album you will never forget.

Move into the Barn, the Long Room, or even outside, for your wedding breakfast. In the barn the rustic sandstone walls, huge oak floorboards, and wrought iron chandeliers create the perfect setting for your beautiful touches to really stand out and complement the setting. The superbly high ceilings and windows, the huge glass entrance porch, and the beautiful stained-glass window all allow natural light to flood in. For smaller wedding parties, the Long Room is perfect, with its intricately carved wooden panelling and pillars, along with the divine floor to ceiling windows, create the perfect setting to complement any decor.

The Italian Garden Terrace is a Holesfoot ceremony favourite. Weather dependent, it is an absolute must-do and will leave you and your guests covered head to toe in goosebumps having witnessed something so stunningly romantic. Walking through arches of roses, sweet peas, and honeysuckle, along an aisle bordered by water lilies, with stone statues perched on every wall and wisteria creeping up walls and down pillars in the most naturally enchanting of ways.

When it comes to your first dance, go for it and make an unforgettable entrance! The whole barn ceiling is covered with thousands of fibre optic lights to create the most incredible twinkly starry night sky. This really is a standout feature of the venue and will add another dimension to your celebrations whilst dancing the night away.

The morning after, a long soak in one of the many extravagant bathtubs, or a coffee in the hot tub will cure that inevitable foggy head. Whip up some eggs for brekky courtesy of the Holesfoot hens and head to the bar for a cheeky hair-of-the-dog Bloody Mary, or amongst the flowers in the walled garden to reminisce over your big day. As self-confessed coffee snobs, you’ll appreciate a properly made barista style coffee with our own blend of coffee beans. Sunday-fun-days at Holesfoot are always a huge hit with all guests, get the BBQ going & have a hot tub party, or a games day with volleyball and ping-pong tournaments, rounders, footie, croquet, pub quizzes, karaoke, the world really is your oyster! Having the estate to yourselves for another whole day of antics in the most relaxed environment you’ll ever come across to end your big weekend on an unforgettable high.

  • LGBTQ+-owned
  • Woman-owned

Frequently asked questions

Venue type:

In the country
Unusual weddings
Asian wedding
Stately home
Historic
Marquees and tents
Woodland and festival
Barn
Outdoor license
Tipis and yurts
Unique weddings

Ceremony options:

Fire ceremony
Civil ceremony licence

Dining options:

Seated meal facilities
Corkage option
Private catering allowed
Alcohol licence
Buffet meal facilities
In-house catering

Evening entertainment:

Dance floor
Entertainment licence
Live band facilities
Evening reception facilities
DJ facilities

Overnight accommodation:

Overnight accommodation for wedding couple
Overnight accommodation for guests

Venue staff assistance:

Wedding coordinator

Other features:

Exclusive use
Accessible facilities
Car parking
Helipad
Confetti permitted
Changing room for wedding guests
Pet-friendly
Elephant baraat permitted
Horse baraat permitted
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Reviews for Holesfoot

Brogan
Daniel Sent on 13/12/2024
5 out of 5 rating

The best!

We got married at Holesfoot in the middle of Darragh but because of this venue it did not affect our day in the slightest. We got to use the beautiful Manor House the day before and host a little gathering. The day of the wedding the house and barn offered great opportunities for photos that couldn’t be done outside. Nothing was too much trouble for Liv and the team at Holesfoot and they truly made our day special. We had the BEST day and we would recommend this venue it’s 10/10!!
Harriet
Harriet Sent on 06/10/2024
5 out of 5 rating

How you could describe Holesfoot as anything less than stunning is beyond me

Absolutely gorgeous venue that is clearly so lovingly looked after by Liv and James. They’re super responsive and friendly to any and all enquires (including my own mix up with dates!) and we’re beyond accommodating to our friends and family flying in from all over the world.

We had a truly magical weekend celebrating our wedding in early September , and are already thinking of an occasion to come back with everyone for! The house, cottage, stables, barn, terraced gardens, pond, bake house and glamping tents are so well looked after, warm and perfectly comfortable. The jacuzzi is an added bonus too.

We really can’t recommend Holesfoot enough, the entire booking process was painless and friendly, the wedding itself was flawless, we really couldn’t critique a single bit, and the staff are absolutely brilliant. Truly a diamond of a location and we couldn’t recommend it enough for hosting any type of gathering!
Kate
Kate Sent on 21/10/2024
5 out of 5 rating

An absolute dream

Dream wedding venue ! Incredible professional support from staff nothing was too much and they made us feel so at home and supported to make our dream wedding become a reality. All the accommodation is absolutely stunning as well as the beautiful gardens. Do not hesitate to book here, simply magical and a dream come true.
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Samantha Sent on 06/06/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Just wow…the most magical wedding venue!

The most amazing wedding venue! Holesfoot was the first venue we looked at and we fell in love. The accommodation is absolutely stunning we had such a great evening before the wedding. We did not have great weather for our wedding day but it didn’t matter as the canopy outside was brilliant and kept everyone dry yet still outside. Every part of Holesfoot is beautiful and we had the most magical day there. Thank you so much to Liv and the team who helped make our experience so special.
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Patrick Sent on 25/09/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Simply the best, better than all the rest.

My wife and I got married here at the end of August, and it was honestly one of the best days we have ever had. James and Liv's attention to detail and their relaxed confident approach helped put us at ease. They are very flexible with ideas and love to try new ideas at the venue. We had archery and axe throwing which apparently was a first but went down an absolute treat with everyone. They helped coordinate everything on the day meaning we didn't have to worry about anything or lift a finger. The venue and accommodation is genuinely amazing and very well finished. Couldn't recommend this place enough! You helped make memories that will last a lifetime. Thank you Holesfoot!
S
Sophie Sent on 22/06/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Our dream wedding!!

Holesfoot is a hidden gem in the Eden Valley that gave us our dream Italian style wedding! Liv and James were the best venue suppliers we could have wished for, completely letting us put our own spin on our day which was so important to us. Their staff were also incredible and never left a flute empty which led to very happy guest!

One of the luxuries of Holesfoot is the ability for the wedding party to stay on site in the beautiful Holesfoot House so you can really drag out the wedding celebrations in style. The attention to detail in the house and barn is amazing and you can really see how much time and effort Liv and James have put in to create this beautiful venue.

We had our ceremony in the beautiful Italian gardens and it was a little slice of heaven. You have so many lovely options of where to get married around Holesfoot and Liv and James are completely committed to helping you create your dream wedding day. It’s perfect for fun loving couples who want the romantic yet fun vibes to their day.
Words can’t describe how grateful we are to have found Holesfoot and we have memories to treasure for the rest of our lives. Thank you!
K
Kelly Sent on 22/06/2022
5 out of 5 rating

Beautiful Holes foot.

We had the most amazing wedding day and it is honestly down to the generosity of them both. We really felt like we could just be and do what we wanted and just enjoy absolutely everything holesfoot had to offer without a worry. We had the most amazing wedding day and it is honestly down to the generosity of them both. We really felt like we could just be and do what we wanted and just enjoy absolutely everything holesfoot had to offer without a worry. We got married in the beautiful long room and the detail in that room is second to none. the colour of the walls and the beautiful wooden beams make the room so special and it feels very church like also, which we loved. Our ceremony was followed by drinks and dancing in the barn gardens with canapes and a live singer. We followed this through to the wedding breakfast in the barn followed by our evening reception. We spent the rest of the weekend at holesfoot which was so much fun. We had a big family BBQ the next day on the BBQ lawn, played croquet, relaxed in the sunshine and played on the rope swing many more times. We had so much fun and it was so lovely to spend that time with friends and family. We couldn't recommend doing that more, it really felt that we added that extra special something to our wedding and it kept the excitement going as we really didn't want to go home. The details are just stunning, and we loved that we felt a million miles from home and we loved how private it was too. We will never forget what James and liv did for us and our families. We had such a wonderful time and will cherish it for years to come.
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Liv
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I am so excited to show you the magic of Holesfoot & make you fall just as much in love with this place as I am! I will be with you every step of your journey here, from your initial enquiry, viewings, planning, tips and adivce. I know Holesfoot like the back of my hand and it is my life long passion, so you're in safe hands!

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Holesfoot, Brackenslack Lane, Penrith, Cumbria CA10 3HX Penrith (Cumbria)
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