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What’s going on this Halloween?

Itching to get out and about this Halloween? We’ve created a one-stop guide bursting with events to keep you busy during spooky season.

Lex Kristan

Words by: Lex Kristan

Published on 27 October 2021 | 0 min read

Pumpkin patches, scary experiences and drive-in cinemas. If you share our love of Halloween but you’re unsure of what’s going on in your area, there’s no need to look any further. We’ve trawled the internet and compiled a to-do list of all things Halloweeny just for you, so take a look at what’s going on in your area, hop in your car and get into the Halloween spirit. Oh, and don’t forget your wellies.

Scotland

Pumpkin patches

Kilduff Farm, East Lothian, Edinburgh and The Lothians
• Their Pumpkin festival is currently running until 31 October. • Tickets at £6 for one-car parking and admission of all passengers to the patch for two hours. Charleton Fruit Farm, Dumfries and Galloway • Pumpkin picking is currently running until 7th November. • Advanced booking is not required. Westerton Farmers, Aberdeen City and Shire • The PYO Pumpkins event is running until 31st October. • Tickets at £5 per car. Broadslap Fruit Farm, Perthshire, Tayside • The Broadslap PumpkinFest is currently running until 31st October. • Booking slots are available via their website and you pay for what you pick onsite. Arnprior Farm, Stirling, Loch Lomond, The Trossachs & The Forth Valley • Pumpkin picking is now open on the six-acre patch with over 15,000 pumpkins to choose from. • Tickets cost £6.50 per car.

Spooky experiences

Halloween Drive-in Cinema hosted by the Catherine McEwan Foundation at Falkirk Stadium, 29th-31st October .
Halloween drive-in cinema at Loudoun Castle 29-31st October. • Halloween drive-in cinema at The Iris, Ayr, 29-31st October. • Ghost tours at Carlisle Castle, 28-31st October. • Paisley Halloween Festival, 28th October - 1st November.

North East

Pumpkin patches

Cannon Hall Farm, South Yorkshire
• Their Pumpkin picking festival is currently running until 31st October. • Tickets from £10.95. Stockeld Park, North Yorkshire • The Halloween Adventure festival is currently running until 31st October. • Tickets cost £15 per person. Adventure Valley, Durham • The pumpkin picking runs until 31st October. • Tickets cost £13.95

Spooky experiences

Drive in Cinema at Wynyard Hall, Tees Valley, 29-31st October.
Spooky castle tour at Warkworth Castle and Hermitage, Halloween weekend. • Spooky castle tour at Conisbrough Castle, 29-31st October. • Halloween paint and sip at the Tyneside Irish Centre, 29th October. • Scream Factory scare experience in Redcar, 26-31st October.

North West

Pumpkin patches

Kenyon Hall, Cheshire
• Pumpkin picking season runs until 31st October. • Tickets cost £2 per person. Church Farm Organics, Wirral, Merseyside • Open until 31st October. • Full day tickets from £6. The Dunham Pumpkin Patch, Cheshire • Open until 31st October. • Tickets cost £5.63 per car.

Spooky experiences

Woodside drive-in cinema, Birkenhead, Halloween weekend.
Scare City Immersive drive-in cinema experience, Manchester, Halloween weekend. • Adrenaline Escape, Terror Mall scare experience, Wigan, ends 31st October. • Scare Kingdom, scare experience, Lancashire, ends 7th November.
Drive in cinema
Drive in cinema

Midlands

Pumpkin patches

Canalside Farm, Staffordshire
• The Pick Your Own Pumpkin experience ends on 30th October. • Tickets cost £2.50 per person. Pumpkins R Us, Warwickshire • The pumpkin patch is open until 31st October. • Tickets start from £4. Bell’s Pumpkin Patch, Lincolnshire • The pumpkin patch is open until 31st October. • Tickets start from £6. Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire • Pick Your Own Pumpkins is open 31 October. • Free entry, pay for what you pick (cash only). Prices start at £2 per pumpkin, dependent on size. Maxeys Farm Shop, Nottinghamshire • P..P..Pick Up a Pumpkin event running until 31st October. • Tickets cost £3 per person.

Spooky experiences

Spooky castle tour at Goodrich Castle, Halloween weekend.
Ghoust tour at Bolsover Castle, Halloween weekend. • Haunted castle experience at Warwick Castle, ends 31st October.

Wales

Pumpkin patches

Gower Fresh Christmas Trees, West Glamorgan
• Their Halloween on Gower event ends on 31st October. • Tickets are available to book at £7.99. Bellis Brothers, Wrexham • PYO Pumpkins and the Spooky Maize Maze runs until 31st October. • General admission tickets are free. Pembrokeshire Pumpkins, Pembrokeshire • Pumpkin picking is running until 31st October. • Tickets start at £5.98.

Spooky experiences

Drive-in Cinema at Margram County Park, 27-30th October.
Terror Mountain scare experience, Aberystwyth, ends October 31st . • Halloween Family events at Fonmon Castle, ends 31st October.

South East

Pumpkin patches

Tulleys Farm, West Sussex
• PYO Pumpkins is open until the end of October. • Ticket prices start from £4. Hatter’s Farm, Essex • The Pick Your Own Pumpkin event ends 31st October. • Tickets cost £4.26 per car. Bocketts Farm, Surrey • Their Witches and Wizards Week ends 31st October. • Tickets from £14.50. Millets Farm Centre, Oxfordshire • The Halloween Spook-tacular Farm ends 31st October. • Tickets cost £1 to enter the pumpkin patch, then you just pay for what you pick.

Spooky experiences

Ghost tours and Halloween Quests ran by English Heritage, ends 31st October.
Family Halloween Events at Drusilla’s Park, East Sussex, ends 31st October. • Shocktober Fest scare experience, Tulley’s Farm, West Sussex, ends 7th November.

South West

Pumpkin patches

Trevaskis Farm, Cornwall
• Pick Your Own Pumpkins is open until 31st October. • Booking is not required and pumpkins cost up to £3.50. Avon Valley Adventure & Wildlife Park, Bristol • The pumpkin patch is open until 31st October. • Tickets cost £4 per person. Farmer Palmers, Dorset • The pumpkin patch ends 30th October. • Tickets cost £3.50 each.

Spooky experiences

Spooky castle tour at Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Halloween weekend.
Family Halloween Experience at Woodlands Park, Dorset, ends 31st October. • Skelloween at Bristol Zoo, ends 31st October. If you end up at any of the above, let us know on Twitter - and no matter what you end up doing this week, have fun and stay safe.