Throughout October half-term, we're hosting a series of Halloween craft sessions, alongside a spectacular Foxton Fright Fayre, offering plenty of opportunities for families to get creative and enjoy exploring the historic flight of locks.
What to expect
We're inviting visitors to take part in hands-on craft activities including stained-glass Halloween lanterns, ghost wind catchers, Halloween luminaries and pumpkin painting sessions. The workshops, held at the Foxton Locks Welcome Centre, are suitable for children aged six and over when accompanied by an adult.
On Sunday 25 October, the ‘Foxton Fright Fayre’ will see the water in the locks turn an eerie shade of green, with weird and wonderful creatures lurking under the surface. Visitors will be able to try their luck at frightful games and enjoy a hauntingly good day beside the canal. The event runs from 10am until 2pm.
The UK’s longest, steepest flight of staircase locks, Foxton Locks is a marvel of engineering. The locks were built by hand more than 200 years ago to help raise cargo-carrying boats 75ft uphill. Set among 34 acres of green space, the site welcomes more than 400,000 people each year, with visitors able to enjoy the site's cafés, pubs, nature trails and historic remains of the Foxton Inclined Plane – a Victorian boat lift designed to haul boats up the hill and now a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
