Halloween Events in Cheshire 2026: The Full Guide

Looking for Halloween events in Cheshire in 2026? You’re in the right place. We’ve pulled together the county’s full spooky season, from pumpkin patches and family trails to scare nights, ghost hunts and fireworks, all checked and updated right up to Halloween weekend.

Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, so whether you want a gentle pumpkin pick with the little ones, a candlelit ghost walk or a scare park that’ll have you clinging to your mates, here’s everything confirmed, with dates, prices and booking links so you’re not left guessing.

🦇 Halloween: Saturday 31 October

🎆 The Lord Mayor’s Spooktacular Fireworks
Sat 31 Oct, junior display 6.45pm, main display 7.30pm, Chester Racecourse (the Roodee), Chester
Chester’s big charity fireworks night moves to Halloween this year, with a child-friendly early display, fairground rides and fire performers. Fancy dress encouraged. £14pp (under-5s free but still need a ticket). Booking was showing limited availability, so grab tickets soon.
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🎃 Spooky Saturday
Sat 31 Oct, activities from 10am, Macclesfield Town Centre, Macclesfield
Free Macclesfield’s big free town-centre Halloween bash, with a free bus laid on. Some bookable sessions are already full, but there’s plenty to drop in on.
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👻 Halloween Night Ghost Tour
Sat 31 Oct, 7.30pm, departs Town Hall, Northgate Street, Chester
The Original Ghost Tour of Chester has run for over 40 years, on the spookiest night of the year, winding through the old Rows and cobbled streets with your own ghost hunter guide. Booking ahead is recommended as this is a popular night.
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🎧 Trance Addicts 4: Halloween Special
Sat 31 Oct, 4pm to 2am (last entry midnight), The Arena, Crewe | From £15, 18+
A Halloween-themed trance marathon with Darren Tate headlining. Fancy dress is optional but very much encouraged.
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😱 Spooky World: Scary at Night on Halloween
Sat 31 Oct, timed arrival slots, park closes 11pm, Spooky World, Stretton Road, Appleton, Warrington | Strictly 16+, photo ID may be required
The scare park that bills itself as an “Award Winning Scare Attraction” on Halloween night itself, with a new Carnevil Inc. attraction for 2026. Not for the faint-hearted.
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🎃 Family Friendly: Pumpkin Patches and Farms

🎃 Kenyon Hall Farm Pumpkin Festival
From Sat 26 Sep, Kenyon Hall Farm, Croft, Warrington
£3.95pp, under 18 months free, pumpkins from £2, advance booking essential. One of the biggest pumpkin festivals around, with 20,000-plus pumpkins and squashes in 50 varieties, plus a café, farm shop and playground. Tickets are almost entirely sold out for this final week, though extra tickets have been released for Sun 1 Nov.
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🎃 The Lambing Shed Pumpkin Picking
Various dates, weekends and half term, The Lambing Shed, Knutsford
Pick from 28 varieties of homegrown pumpkins, with good food and photo spots. Closing soon, so check the website before you travel.
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🎃 High Legh Pumpkin Patch
Various dates/times, High Legh, Knutsford
The original Cheshire patch and still the budget champion: 22,000-plus pumpkins across four acres, and you only pay for what you pick.
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🌙 High Legh Moonlight Picking
Fridays in October, including Fri 30 Oct, High Legh Pumpkin Patch, Knutsford
Pumpkin picking after dark, which is a lovely twist if the kids are old enough for a later night.
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🎃 Seven Sisters: Halloween by Day and by Night
Fri 30 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, Seven Sisters Farm, Knutsford | Day: free entry, pay for your pumpkins
By day, a scarecrow maize maze and the Secret Pumpkin Patch hidden in the corn field, with farm-made ice cream afterwards. By night on Fri 30 and Sat 31 Oct, the maze turns into a 14+ scare experience, boots and wellies advisable.
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🚜 Wheelock Hall Farm Pumpkin Patch
Sat 3 to Sat 31 Oct, 9am to 6.30pm, Wheelock Hall Farm, Sandbach
Pick your pumpkin, then stay for the outdoor play areas, indoor soft play and farm animals, which are all included.
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🐑 Tatton Park Pumpkin Patch at the Farm
Various dates to Sat 31 Oct, 11am to 3pm, Tatton Park Farm, Knutsford
Pumpkins from £2, plus farm and parkland entry. Say hello to the farmyard crew, then grab a barrow and pick your own from the field. Expect mud and big smiles.
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🎃 Halloween Pumpkin Carving Morning
Fri 30 Oct, Mobberley Dairy Farm, Mobberley | Booking needed
Carve your own jack-o’-lantern on a working dairy farm, with ice cream nearby.
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🎪 The Greatest Spooky Show
Various dates to Sat 31 Oct, Castaway Play, Congleton
Pumpkin picking, trails, characters, shows, crafts, animals and a haunted disco, which makes a cracking full day out for younger kids.
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🕯️ Family Friendly: Trails and Attractions

🎃 Knutsford Pumpkin Path
Fri 30 Oct, 4pm to 7pm, Knutsford Town Centre, Knutsford | Free
Hunt for lettered pumpkins in shop windows to spell out a seasonal phrase, enter the prize draw and visit the revamped Wallwood with its spooky graveyard and pumpkin patch. Live music from local dance and choir groups too.
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⛵ Halloween and Half Term Activities
Mon 26 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, 10am to 4pm, National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port | Free activities, standard museum admission may apply
Free ghost tours, a pumpkin trail, crafty Halloween activities and boat trips at the canal museum, which has six resident ghosts. Watch out for the gorgeously ghoulish costumed staff.
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🧂 Halloween at the Works
Fri 30 Oct, Lion Salt Works, Marston, Northwich | Free, age 4+
Free spooky crafts, haunted stories and a trick or treat trail at this atmospheric former saltworks museum.
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🧙 World of Wizardry
Various dates including Fri 30 and Sat 31 Oct, The Ice Cream Farm, Tattenhall
A 20-minute interactive magic school with Potion Making, Herbology, Dark Arts and Creepy-Crawlie Crafting, led by the farm’s own Professors. Pumpkin picking also runs at the Drive In, free and no booking.
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🎉 Halloween Party at The Play Barn
Fri 30 and Sat 31 Oct, The Play Barn, Blakemere Village, Sandiway
A fancy dress competition, spooky disco, hot dogs and party bags for little monsters
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🏰 Halloweenville: The Rise of the Ancient Skeleton King
Fri 2 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, entry slots 5pm to 8pm, Partridge Lakes, Culcheth, Warrington
A lakeside storybook trail with skeleton pirates, sword-training knights, potion brewing and a wizard library. Peak pricing applies this final week, and tickets are online only, so book ahead.
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🌳 Halloween at BeWILDerwood
Sat 3 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, BeWILDerwood Cheshire, Delamere area
The treehouse adventure park gets a spooky seasonal makeover, with Twig or Treating by day and a glowing light trail at sunset.
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🌲 Magical Woodland Halloween
Fri 9 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, evening timed entry, Blakemere Craft Centre, Sandiway, Northwich | From £18pp
Fifteen acres of glowing pumpkins, light and sound, owls and marshmallow fire pits. For its 10th birthday there are live character encounters for the first time. Very limited availability left, so book now if you want to go.
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🧹 Blakemere Halloween Trail
Until Sun 1 Nov, 10am to 4pm, Blakemere Village, Sandiway, Northwich | £7 per trail map
A daytime spooky clue trail around the village, which pairs nicely with an evening at Magical Woodland next door.
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🪄 Halloween at The Hole In Wand
Sat 10 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, The Hole In Wand, Chester
A Halloween season at The Hole In Wand in Chester, a handy one to add to a city-centre day.
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🎢 Fright Fiesta
Sat 10 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, 10.30am to 4pm, Gulliver’s World, Warrington | Tickets from £19
A colourful, festival-style Halloween takeover with a fancy dress street parade, friendly frights and all the rides, pitched at ages 2 to 13.
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🐯 Halloween at Chester Zoo
Sat 17 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, 10am to 4.30pm, Chester Zoo, Upton, Chester
Follow the Zoo vs You Top Trumps trail, take in the giant pumpkin sculptures and warm up with seasonal food and drink. Face painting costs extra.
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🦈 Boo! Planet Aquarium
Until Sun 1 Nov, Blue Planet Aquarium, Cheshire Oaks, Ellesmere Port | Free with general admission
A spooky makeover for the shark tunnel, plus an activity booklet, special talks and Halloween stalls including a pumpkin shy.
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💀 Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail
Now running, timed evening entry, Arley Hall & Gardens, near Northwich
The UK debut of this light trail, with over 1,700 light installations bringing Halloween Town, Jack Skellington, Sally and Zero to life across Arley’s grounds. Around 75 minutes, and it goes ahead in the rain. Prices vary by date, so check when booking.
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🎃 Wilmslow Halloween Trail
Sat 17 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, Wilmslow Town Centre, Wilmslow
An easy town-centre trail that runs right through half term, good for a quick spooky wander with a coffee stop.
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👻 Tegg’s Nose Country Park Halloween Trail
Sat 24 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, maps 9am to 4pm, The Nose Coffee, Tegg’s Nose Visitor Centre, Macclesfield
Hunt the spooky visitors around the top of the park, then take the completed trail back for 50p off your food or drink.
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🍂 Brereton Heath Halloween Trail
Sat 24 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, maps 9am to 4pm, Brereton Heath Local Nature Reserve, Congleton | Free
One of the best genuinely free half-term outings. Pick up a map and let the kids find all the spooky visitors.
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🔦 Halloween Storytelling and Forest Walk
Fri 30 Oct, 7pm to 9pm, Delamere Forest, Delamere | £7pp
Spooky stories followed by a 5km woodland walk after dark, best for older kids who fancy something different.
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🪩 Halloween Disco
Sat 31 Oct, The Cheshire County Sports Club, Chester | £6 per child
An old-school kids’ Halloween disco with scary costumes encouraged.
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🏰 Family Friendly: Castles, Gardens and Heritage Sites

🌾 Quarry Bank Scarecrow Festival
Sat 3 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, 10.30am to 5pm, Quarry Bank, Styal, Wilmslow | Trail sheets £2.50
Quarry Bank’s first scarecrow festival, with an outdoor trail plus crafts, games, storytelling and indoor play for when the weather turns.
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🚪 Doors to Hallowtide
Sat 17 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, 10.30am to 5pm, Lyme, Disley
Follow mysterious doorways through Lyme’s autumn landscape to discover local folklore and ghostly tales. It’s atmospheric without being too scary.
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👻 Apprentice House Spooky Tours
Sat 24 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, Quarry Bank, Styal, Wilmslow | Free with admission, ages 6+
A spooky twist on the Apprentice House tour with ghostly stories and surprises. Tickets can’t be pre-booked, so arrive early and grab one from Visitor Reception.
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💀 Skellies and Wellies
Sat 24 Oct to Sun 1 Nov (closed Monday), Tatton Park Gardens, Knutsford
Nine hilarious skeleton scenes are hiding across 50 acres of autumn gardens, so come in fancy dress and wellies.
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🍁 Escape into Autumn at Hare Hill
Sat 24 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, 10.30am to 4.30pm on opening days, Hare Hill, Macclesfield
An autumn spotter trail for families who want fresh air and colour rather than frights.
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🐺 Autumn Family Fun at Little Moreton Hall
Sat 24 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, 10.30am to 4pm, Little Moreton Hall, Congleton
Three family activities (Escape into Autumn, Wandering Wolves and Design Detective) at the gloriously wonky Tudor hall.
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🎃 Grumpy Pumpkins Halloween Trail
Fri 30 Oct and Sun 1 Nov, 10am to 5pm, Norton Priory, Runcorn | £1 per child
Find all 10 grumpy pumpkins in the grounds and woodland, unscramble the magic word and win a treat from the Witch of the Wood. Closed Saturday 31 Oct.
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🏮 Jack-o’-Lanterns Light Walk
Tonight, Tue 27 Oct, 5.30pm to 7.30pm, Norton Priory, Runcorn
The museum grounds and woodland glow with pumpkin lanterns after dark. It’s magical, so wrap up warm.
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📖 Spooky Stories for Little Monsters
Thu 29 Oct, Norton Priory Undercroft, Runcorn | Afternoon session 3.30pm to 4.30pm from £13.95 adults, £7 children
Storyteller Rogan Mills spins Halloween tales in the medieval Undercroft. An evening session that includes the lantern walk also runs.
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🧪 Myth, Magic and Mystery
Thu 29 to Sat 31 Oct, various times, Tatton Old Hall, Knutsford | £15pp, includes parkland entry, must be pre-booked
Brew a potion and learn the gruesome ingredients of old medicines inside the atmospheric Old Hall. Recommended for ages 7 to 11.
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🎬 Family Theatre, Books and Cinema

📚 WayWord Festival
Thu 22 Oct to Sun 1 Nov, Storyhouse, Chester
Storyhouse’s half-term festival of children’s authors, illustrators, theatre, storytelling and workshops, a welcome break if you’ve had your fill of muddy fields.
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🎬 Daytime Halloween Film Screenings
Sat 31 Oct, Northwich Memorial Court, Northwich
Two spooky matinees: family favourite Spooky Buddies and the creepier Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
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🧹 Outdoor Cinema: Hocus Pocus
Tonight, Tue 27 Oct, doors 4pm, film 5pm, Tatton Park, Knutsford | £15 adult, £10 child, £35 family
The Sanderson sisters under the Tatton sky, a family favourite for a spooky open-air movie night.
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🧛 Outdoor Cinema: The Lost Boys
Tonight, Tue 27 Oct, doors 7.15pm, film 8.15pm, Tatton Park, Knutsford | Rated 15, £15 adult, £10 child, £35 family
The eighties vampire classic on the big outdoor screen, one for the parents who grew up on it.
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😱 Scary and Immersive

🌽 Seven Sisters Halloween Night Maze
Fri 30 and Sat 31 Oct, entry from 6pm, Seven Sisters Farm, Knutsford | 14+ (under-13s must be accompanied even outside the maze)
Dare you walk the maize maze by night? See the farm lit up at its spookiest, with live scarecrows adding to the scares. Boots or wellies advised, you will get muddy.
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😱 Spooky World: Scary at Night
Various dates to Sun 1 Nov, timed arrival slots, Spooky World, Appleton, Warrington | Strictly 16+, photo ID may be required
Cheshire’s big scare park, which says it has over 20 years of fear, with horror attractions including the Haunted Hayride, Slaughterhouse and the new Carnevil Inc. Not for the faint-hearted.
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👹 Spooky World: Spooky at Night
Various dates, Spooky World, Appleton, Warrington | Ages 10+, under 16s must be with an adult (18+)
A toned-down evening for tweens and young teens who want a thrill without the full-on scares.
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🕯️ Halloween Ghost Hunt at Tatton Old Hall
Sat 31 Oct, 9pm to 2am, Tatton Old Hall, Knutsford | 18+
Spend Halloween night itself on an overnight paranormal investigation of a 15th-century manor house with Haunted Happenings.
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👻 Chester Ghost Tours: Halloween Extra Tours
Various dates to Sat 31 Oct, 7.30pm, departs Town Hall, Northgate Street, Chester
Extra nightly tours over half term. The guides mix chilling tales with real history, and it’s family-friendly.
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🍸 Adult Nights, Parties and Live Entertainment

💃 One More Time: 90s and 00s Halloween Day Party
Sat 31 Oct, 6pm to 10pm, The Live Rooms, Chester
Britney, Spice Girls and Busted in fancy dress, finished in time to be home by midnight.
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🖤 Black Parade and Chop Suey: Halloween
Sat 31 Oct, 11pm, The Live Rooms, Chester
A huge emo and nu-metal Halloween party for the late shift.
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🪩 Rosies Halloween: Twisted Carnival
Sat 31 Oct, 8pm to 4am, Rosies, Northgate Street, Chester
Rosies goes big for Halloween with light shows, dancers, live entertainment and DJs. Arrive within your ticket time slot.
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🪩 Rosies Halloween: Twisted Disko
Sat 31 Oct, 9pm to 4am, Rosies, Northgate Street, Chester
A second Halloween night at Rosies for anyone who wants to dance until the small hours.
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🎛️ MNML Halloween
Fri 30 Oct, 9pm to 3am, Bonobo Bar and Canteen, Chester
MNML’s Halloween night returns to Chester with Local Dub, Toby Simpson, Amy May and more.
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🎤 Macclesfield Halloween Nights Out
Fri 30 and Sat 31 Oct, Diversion Bar & Kitchen and Cinemac Live, Macclesfield
Fri 30 Oct is Zombiefish at Diversion’s Halloween Weekend. Sat 31 Oct brings a Halloween Party and Killer Karaoke at Diversion, plus The Return of Macc Sabbath at Cinemac Live from 7.30pm. A good spread of grown-up options in Macc town centre.
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🧠 Halloween Bingo & Quiz Night
Sat 31 Oct, from 8pm, Morley Green Club, Mobberley Road, Wilmslow
A spooky pub-style bingo and quiz night for the grown-ups.
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👻 That’s Cheshire Sorted for Halloween

That’s our full round-up of Halloween events across Cheshire for 2026, from Chester to Crewe, Knutsford to Northwich. We check this page regularly in the run-up to Halloween, so if something’s sold out, cancelled, or a new event pops up, we’ll update it here rather than making you dig through old posts.

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