Afternoon Tea Week
Tue 11 Aug
|TEA HOUSE IN THE WOODS
Sit Back and Enjoy One of England’s Finest Traditions in Woodhall Spa’s Oldest Tearoom Celebrate Afternoon Tea Week
Time & Location
11 Aug 2020, 19:00 – 16 Aug 2020, 16:00
TEA HOUSE IN THE WOODS, Woodhall Spa, UK
About the event
The cream tea story
Crumbly scones, sticky fruit jam, lashings of clotted cream and perfectly brewed tea. It’s a heavenly combination, but where did it all begin?
Time for tea
Britain’s love affair with tea began when Portuguese Catherine de Braganza married Charles II in 1662, bringing the custom of drinking tea at court with her and making tea popular worldwide. In 1706, Thomas Twining opened London’s first tearoom. Before long, a flurry of tearooms appeared across the city, a far sight more inviting for a lady than the male-oriented coffee houses.
Afternoon tea
Tiring of the long wait between lunch and dinner, we have the Duchess of Bedford to thank for the invention of afternoon tea. What started out as simply ordering tea and treats to her room when peckish soon evolved into a gowns-and-all social affair, inviting friends to join her in her country house. By the…