Note that prices vary according to the day and your entry time.
Wear clothes suitable for the cold and wet and wellies/boots, not your new trainers! No umbrellas are allowed for safety reasons. Don't use torches at any point during the route, unless you want to leave. A low-level lit torch means "I WANT TO LEAVE!" at Scaresville. Because of virus restrictions it is obligatory that all visitors to Scaresville wear lower face coverings and gloves. This is for the benefit of all. Any found not wearing either will be escorted from the premises.
Please arrive no earlier than 15 mins before your booked entry hour. You must be here, and checked in, by half-way through your entry hour. Early arrivals within each entry hour will usually be let in to the Scarezone before later ones but this cannot be guaranteed.
The immersive Scaresville experience is designed to take approximately an hour from the time when you enter the Scarezone, although it may take longer as sometimes we can't control our demons! You will walk the entire route, so please come prepared to walk without a break for an hour or so. The ground may be uneven, and we sometimes make it deliberately so. You need to decide before booking if you or any in your party may find this too testing or difficult. Occasionally, you may be held up by slow-moving groups ahead, but we try to minimise the effect of this.
Even though Scaresville is a mysterious haunted village that appears in the historic grounds of Kentwell Hall, Suffolk every October, it is not that hard to find...
Kentwell Hall is just off the A134 between Bury St Edmunds (A14) and Sudbury on the Suffolk/Essex border.
Take the turning signposted Long Melford and follow the signs for Kentwell Hall.Nearest train station is Sudbury, at 4 miles.
Please arrive no earlier than 15mins before your booked Entry Time Band, You must be here, and checked in, by half-way through your entry time band. The earlier you arrive, the earlier you will be let in. If you miss your entry time band we will try and fit you in, if possible. If you miss your day - that's devilish bad luck. There are no refunds.
Scaresville continues whatever the weather and the majority of the route is outside. If there has been a lot of rain it can get muddy, and October nights can be quite cold. Wear clothes suitable for the cold and wet and wellies or boots. Not your new trainers! No umbrellas are allowed for safety reasons.
We don't allow visitors to wear full face masks in Scaresville. It's better overall if you leave the costumes to us!
Warm and waterproof clothes and shoes.
A low-level lit torch means "don't scare me!" at Scaresville. So only light your torch if you don't want scarers to operate their scare (this will mean the entire group won't experience it). We ask that otherwise you don't use torches at any point during the route as it will spoil the event.
The Scaresville experience is designed to take approximately an hour from the time when you enter the Scarezone. On certain nights, you may be held up by slow-moving groups ahead but we try to minimise the effect of this. If you are booking a taxi to collect you after the experience please note that you might not enter the ScareZone until the end of the timeband that you have booked for, so please allow for entering then, for perhaps not exiting for an hour and a quarter and add another ten/fifteen minutes for going to the loo and getting back to the entrance. It may be better for you to wait for the taxi than to have the taxi waiting around for you or leaving the driver having decided you were not coming.
You will walk the entire route, so please come prepared prepared to walk without a break for an hour or so. The ground may be uneven, and we sometimes make it deliberately so. You need to decide before booking if you or any in your party may find this too testing or difficult.
Groups are put into the ScareZone at set intervals. That interval should be maintained throughout. However, groups may move at different speeds and a fast-moving group may catch a slow-moving one. Your group must always maintain its distance from the group ahead. Slow down or stop, wait and regulate the timings yourselves. Our Marshals may ask your group to wait, so that groups are kept suitably separated. Please wait patiently if you are asked to do so.
We will NOT admit anyone that appears to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. We reserve the right to deny entry to, or remove from, the Scareszone anyone under the influence or drink or drugs or who displays aggressive or unacceptable behaviour.
NO. We do not permit any filming or photography at all within the Scaresville Scarezone. Scaresville is designed to be enjoyed in the dark; any light-sources, beyond the ones we strategically place, will destroy it for you and for others. Life seen and experienced through your own eyes is far better than through a lens!
