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| One of my favourite pastimes is looking for potential LRP sites (call it a hobby) and this one may be the best yet, I really don’t know why I haven’t spotted it before. http://www.mountfitchetcastle.com/index.html Before anyone asks I haven’t contacted them for rates or to find out if they are LRP friendly. However the place looks great. All it needs now is someone to organise a UK version of Dragonbane and run it in the winter, because I’m guessing this ones gonna be expensive to hire! So come on who’s up for running something there?
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Wag
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I'm presuming if you hired it you'd be able to camp in the grounds, there's plenty of space.
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| Looking at that website they seem to be pitched as a tourist spot and so I would doubt they would take to a "private hire" for a whole weekend. I'd love to be proved wrong though, some places are pretty dead during the winter so may accept that sort of business.
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Wag
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| Yep the site is closed during the winter months (Dec, Jan, Feb) and has a section about filming/location work, so LRP isn’t a huge leap of use. It'd be bloody cold though. The other thing I thought might be possible if the site was way too expensive for exclusive use would be to run a semi historical weekend LRP, where the public could interact with the players during the day and the players would have the site to themselves in the evening. Kind of break into the living history market but with plot and action. A lot of LRPers probably have more historical knowledge than many Living History types anyway.
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| There may be some groups who would, but I wouldn't touch that kind of arrangement. The times you'd want are October/November and February/March.
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The times you'd want are October/November and February/March.
Arr. Twice yearly could be good. It depends how many people you could sneak in.
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Sorry, but No. Its not as good as it looks. I happen to live near Stansted Mountfitchet, but don't know much about planning LRP events. However, I know the castle quite well- its very close to Stansted Airport, if you're trying to place it.
Mountfitchet Castle is worth a look if you're in the area, but you will soon see all the (less than fantastic quality) plastic dummies with annoying pre-recorded audio speeches playing whenever you enter a building.
Also, there's the live farm animals - deer, goats, chickens, etc - that wander around the site. Good atmosphere for a tourist attraction/museum, but probably a safety headache for event planners.
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