Café & Shops
Sudbury Courtyard
Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 4pm & bank holidays - dogs are also welcome.
Visit Sudbury Courtyard - a range of stylish, independent shops and a café located in historic buildings next to National Trust’s Sudbury Hall & Museum of Childhood.
Explore Sudbury’s unusual history and its connections to Sudbury Hall through our interpretation displays and enjoy walks around the village.
Sudbury is 2 minutes from the A50 (Derby/Stoke-on-Trent) and A515 (Lichfield/Buxton) junctions and is on SUSTRANS cycle route 549.
The conversion of Sudbury Courtyard won two notable awards for design and craftsmanship: the Local Authority Building Control excellence award for the best small commercial project in the East Midlands (May 2017) and the Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust architecture award for the best restoration of a historic building (November 2018).
Explore Sudbury’s unusual history and its connections to Sudbury Hall through our interpretation displays and enjoy walks around the village.
Sudbury is 2 minutes from the A50 (Derby/Stoke-on-Trent) and A515 (Lichfield/Buxton) junctions and is on SUSTRANS cycle route 549.
The conversion of Sudbury Courtyard won two notable awards for design and craftsmanship: the Local Authority Building Control excellence award for the best small commercial project in the East Midlands (May 2017) and the Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust architecture award for the best restoration of a historic building (November 2018).
Enjoy historic SUDBURY COURTYARD and discover some of what Sudbury people were doing in days gone by
Dancing down the village street to celebrate victory in the Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Hunting Lord Vernon’s fox hounds on horses worth the equivalent of more than £30,000 (early 1800s)
Taking charge of the interior remodelling of Sudbury Hall in the absence of the architect (1852)
Arranging for the chimneys at Sudbury Hall to be altered for mechanical cleaning when new laws prevented ‘climbing boy’ child chimney sweeps (1854)
Painting the village yellow in honour of a visit by the Princess of Wales (1872)
Working from daylight ‘til dark on the Sudbury Estate (1897)
Pillow fighting on a suspended pole at Coming-of-Age celebrations (1909)
Driving Lord Vernon’s private ambulance and fire engine before public services were provided (1920s & 30s)
Hand washing Lady Vernon’s lingerie in a cottage (1950s)
Pollinating peaches in the kitchen garden with a rabbit’s tail on a stick (‘til 1950s)
Dragging reeds from Sudbury Lake with a homemade contraption (1969)
Dressing up as Victorians at a fancy-dress pageant to celebrate the opening of Sudbury by-pass, now the A50 (1972)
And much more…
Scan the QR codes on our interpretation panels, drop into the café and read a housemaid’s account of her life at Sudbury Hall in the 1930s, or the future 10th Lord Vernon’s letters home from the front line in World War II.
With thanks to the Sudbury Local History Group and especially to Dr Cherry Ann Knott, Mrs Wendy Sevier and Mr Colin Grave.
Hunting Lord Vernon’s fox hounds on horses worth the equivalent of more than £30,000 (early 1800s)
Taking charge of the interior remodelling of Sudbury Hall in the absence of the architect (1852)
Arranging for the chimneys at Sudbury Hall to be altered for mechanical cleaning when new laws prevented ‘climbing boy’ child chimney sweeps (1854)
Painting the village yellow in honour of a visit by the Princess of Wales (1872)
Working from daylight ‘til dark on the Sudbury Estate (1897)
Pillow fighting on a suspended pole at Coming-of-Age celebrations (1909)
Driving Lord Vernon’s private ambulance and fire engine before public services were provided (1920s & 30s)
Hand washing Lady Vernon’s lingerie in a cottage (1950s)
Pollinating peaches in the kitchen garden with a rabbit’s tail on a stick (‘til 1950s)
Dragging reeds from Sudbury Lake with a homemade contraption (1969)
Dressing up as Victorians at a fancy-dress pageant to celebrate the opening of Sudbury by-pass, now the A50 (1972)
And much more…
Scan the QR codes on our interpretation panels, drop into the café and read a housemaid’s account of her life at Sudbury Hall in the 1930s, or the future 10th Lord Vernon’s letters home from the front line in World War II.
With thanks to the Sudbury Local History Group and especially to Dr Cherry Ann Knott, Mrs Wendy Sevier and Mr Colin Grave.
