Opening Times

Opening Times

Sunday 31st March & Monday 1st April – Easter Fun

Sunday 7th April – Bank Holiday Monday 27th May
Open on Sundays & Bank Holiday Mondays.
Gardens, Grounds & Tea Room open from 11am
Castle Opens at 12noon
Final Entry 3.30pm.
Close at 4pm.

Sunday 2nd June – Sunday 29th September
Open on Sundays, Tuesdays & Bank Holiday Mondays.
Gardens, Grounds & Tea Room open from 11am
Castle Opens at 12noon
Final Entry 3.30pm.
Close at 4pm.

The Castle, Gardens and Grounds are closed outside of these dates unless part of an organised visit or special event.


Castle Entry & Gardens
Includes entry to the Castle,
Gardens & Gift Shop
Gardens Only
Includes entry to the
Gardens and Gift Shop
Adult (16+)£17.00£11.00
Senior (65+)£16.00£10.50
Student (must show a valid student card)£15.00£10.00
Child (4-15)£10.00£5.50
Child (0-3)FreeFree
Family (2 adults and up to 3 children)£44.0027.50

Historic Houses Memberships are accepted on all regular open days. We regret we do not accepted HH members on special event days.

Please visit our What’s On page to see what special events we have in 2024.

You can purchase annual memberships and gift vouchers through our website. For more information on these please visit our Memberships and Vouchers page.

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The Travelling Auctioneers

𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬… 𝐁𝐁𝐂 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 ‘𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! Two of the stars of hit BBC One show, Christina Trevanion and JJ Chalmers, are visiting Rockingham Castle in Northamptonshire on Tuesday 19th September and are looking for local residents to take part in a major auction! Ahead of […]

Rockingham Castle Receives Support from the Culture Recovery Fund Round Two.

Rockingham Castle in one of over 2,700 arts, culture, heritage organisations to receive support from the Culture Recovery Fund Round Two.

Rockingham Castle receives lifeline grant from Government’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund

Rockingham Castle is one of 445 heritage organisations set to receive a lifesaving financial boost from the government.

Looking back over 2019

Rockingham Castle is celebrating a successful year after hosting many high-profile events.

Victorian Christmas success

Positive comments from visitors at Rockingham Castle’s sell-out Victorian Christmas event have been flooding in.

Hundreds enjoy spooky family fun

Half term Halloween fun was enjoyed by hundreds of families during Rockingham Castle’s four-day spooky event.

Vikings took to battle at Rockingham Castle

Families and history-lovers enjoyed the fearsome Vikings at Rockingham Castle as temperatures soared to record levels this August Bank Holiday weekend.

We’ll make sure Rockingham Food & Drink Fair gets better and better each year

Thousands of food-lovers experienced Rockingham Castle’s first ever Food & Drink Fair at the weekend

Another successful Jousting event at Rockingham Castle

Hundreds of families enjoyed a thrilling jousting event on Father’s Day as people flocked to Rockingham Castle.