A pub-organised Beer and Cider Festival at the Old Hall Inn at Whitehough, near Chinley. This charity event will run from Fri 18th Sept to Sun 20th September and will feature up to 40 beers and up to a dozen ciders/parries. Thornbridge Brewery are sponsoring the event and they will have members of their team a the event to talk about their beers and brewing, and about their new brewery which comes on stream in early September.
Local charities are to benefit from the event, and these include local scout, guides and other local youth projects.
Festival food will be available near to the festival beer, the beer being stillaged in the 10th century Minstrels gallery, surely a first for a beer festival.
Entertainment will be provided by local bands and folk groups and will include burns by a local group of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra musicians.
Getting there is manageable by public transport. Trains from Manchester and the east side of Stockport (as well as Sheffield) run roughly hourly, but check with Northern Rail Timetable booklet 23, and there are one or two fast trains calling at Stockport and then Chinley in the evening rush hour. Trains to Whaley Bridge run hourly throughout the day and do connect with the 190/190 bus up to teatime. The 189/190 bus links Whaley Bridge, Chinley, Chapel-en-le-frith and Buxton. It is an hourly service on Saturday, during the day till teatime. On fri and hourly service becomes less regular in med afternoon. These is no Sunday service for this bus.
It is but a short walk to the Old Hall from Chinley station, bus and train stops.
The Old Hall Inn a 16th Century Free House, Whitehough, Chinley, High Peak, SK23 6EJ
