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Celebrate your wedding at Wat Tyler
For an initial chat or to make a booking call us on 01268 550088
Celebration venue
The Wat Tyler Centre offers a wonderful new venue to celebrate your special day, comfortably seating 140 guests for your wedding breakfast, with plenty of room for live music and dancing for the evening reception, licensed until the small hours. Just 15 minutes from the M25, the venue is easily accessible for all your guests, and hire prices for the day are very competitive starting at just £500 for the whole day and evening.
Attention to detail
We know your wedding is unique and our personal and professional team will help you design your day as you’ve always dreamed it to be. We can help guide you through everything from seating plans to wine lists. Our team of friendly and courteous staff will always be on hand to make sure arrangements run smoothly from beginning to end – which means you can relax and enjoy the occasion.
Our professional catering team offer options from fine dining to a buffet-style reception, using locally sourced ingredients.
Something for everyone
The Wat Tyler Centre is set against the 125 acre natural backdrop of Wat Tyler Country Park, with walking trails for guests to explore and a picturesque village green and pond bordered by pretty, historic cottages that’s perfect for photography. Children will love the adventure playground and the Sculpture trail, mums and dads can try birdwatching in the secluded hides or explore the landscape, so there will always be something to enjoy in quieter moments on the day.
Let’s talk
If you’d like to know more about weddings at Wat Tyler our team will be happy to help on 01268 550088
Posted January 1st, 2010 under Wedding celebrations and receptions
Motorboat Museum closes 4th December 2009
The Motorboat Museum at Wat Tyler Country Park is closing down on the 4th December 2009. Due to large scale refurbishment of the building, it is necessary to close the Motorboat Museum and repatriate the collection.
Posted December 2nd, 2009 under Motorboat Museum
Business events at Wat Tyler
Download our business events brochure or speak to our team on 01268 550088
Conferences, meetings and exhibitions 15 minutes from the M25
The Wat Tyler Centre offers state of the art facilities for business events. It’s highly accessible, just 15 minutes down the A13 from the M25 and served by frequent trains from London Fenchurch Street. The venue is fully DDA compliant throughout, and offers a flexible range of well-equipped spaces, café and catering to suit every event from meetings and training to conferences and exhibitions.
Highly competitive rates, a wide range of local accommodation and a unique 125 acre parkland setting with interactive exhibitions and ecology, heritage and art trails make the Wat Tyler Centre a great venue for your next event.
Download our business events brochure or speak to one of our team on 01268 550088
Posted August 12th, 2009 under Conferences and meetings
Wat Tyler Centre opens
The Wat Tyler Centre is now open to the public, offering a fantastic new facility for learning, celebration and relaxation at the heart of Wat Tyler Country Park.
The building is home to an exciting interactive exhibition that lets you explore the explosives factory heritage of the park and its future as a space for nature at the heart of developments in the Thames Gateway region. State of the art classrooms are available for school visits in the Diamond Suite which offers a great all-weather base for education visits exploring the park.
The new Café at Wat Tyler on the first floor offers great food with great views over the nature reserve at Pitseahall Fleet, especially from the deck of the balcony.
The Nobel Room is a fantastic venue for weddings, conferences, exhibitions and concerts with capacity for 250 theatre-style and 140 reception-style. At just 15 minutes from the M25, trains direct to Pitsea from central London and plenty of local affordable, quality hotel rooms, the Nobel Room offers a great new venue whatever the event.
Posted August 12th, 2009 under Conferences and meetings, Interactive exhibition, Things to do, Wat Tyler Project, Wedding celebrations and receptions
Wat Tyler Project update
Building is now in its final phase and the Wat Tyler Centre is on schedule to open in Summer 2009.
The work will transform the iconic building at the heart of both the old explosives factory and the Sea Transport Stores into a state of the art visitor centre with an 80 seat cafe/restaurant, conference, entertainment and education facilities.
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The structure and design includes features that will minimise the building’s environmental impact. A large capacity water recycling tank has been installed and will capture the run-off from the huge roof, use some to flush toilets and transfer the rest to a series of ponds and a wetland that will provide new habitat for the wealth of wildlife already to be found at Wat Tyler.
Another great feature is the passive ventilation system. No need for expensive pumps that use electricity. The air will be drawn in through four large ‘chimneys’ that will eventually be located on each apex of the roof.
A feature that nobody will see but all visitors will benefit from is the heating system – a wood-burning boiler. The wood – fast growing willow – will be grown and harvested at the adjacent landfill site, on a large, restored section of the lower slope. Once chipped and dried, the fuel will be transported the 400 metres to the new centre and fed into the boiler.
It’s a carbon neutral cycle – in simple terms, the willow grows and locks up the atmospheric carbon dioxide in its tissues. Then we dry and burn it, releasing the CO2 back into the atmosphere to be locked up again by the continuously growing crop.
Find out more about the Wat Tyler Project
Posted May 14th, 2009 under Wat Tyler Project
Spring comes to Wat Tyler
Spring has finally arrived at Wat Tyler and everything is bursting into life. Take a look at our image gallery to see some of the things you can find here.
Posted April 30th, 2008 under Wildlife
Bird sightings at the Park
Wat Tyler Country Park is recognised as one of the best bird watching sites in Essex. As the seasons change we get many passing visitors adding to our regular residents.
Here are all the birds listed on our sightings board for February and March 2008:
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Posted April 29th, 2008 under Wildlife
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