Stockeld Park is set to open for its Christmas events this weekend after a £100,000 investment.

The Christmas Adventure at Stockeld Park started in 2007 and has added new features since.

Peter and Susie Grant, the owners, said recent improvements meant visitors were set to experience the park’s “most spectacular light show yet”.

Other new features for the enchanted forest this year include giant butterflies, jackalopes, phoenixes and griffins.

Experience the illuminations in the forest.

As well as the illuminations, the park has Santa’s grotto, an ice skating rink, a Christmas in Oz pantomime, an illuminated maze and more.

The Christmas Adventure opens on Saturday, November 19 and will run until Tuesday, January 3.

Tickets, which start at £12 for ice skating or £15 for access to the forest, maze and illuminations, are available now.

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Mr Grant said:

“Anybody can come to enjoy the illuminations, young or old, with or without children, and they are perfect for romantic evenings in our quieter times which tend to be Mondays to Thursdays in November and early December.”

This investment follows the opening of Stockeld Park’s £3.5 million children’s play centre called Playhive, which opened this summer.

It features a space, aeronautical, subaquatic and jungle themed areas, which are all connected by a 33-feet tall tower, which also comes with giant slides and a toddler zone.

Mr Grant added:

“The Playhive has been very well received, I think as much as anything because it introduces a novel concept of a play space where adults and children can play together, and it gives us the ability to be an all-weather venue.”