Team Building Afternoon

FootGolf team building afternoons are just perfect for your company's away day. You can arrive from lunch time and enjoy 9 or 18 holes of FootGolf on our glorious golf course, accompanied by your very own course marshal who will guide you around the course and offer help, or another football should yours end up in a pond! Enjoy our views over Pendle Hill and if you're lucky, on a clear day you might even see Blackpool Tower. Our FootGolf course is changeling enough for the keen sports person but also fun enough for those beginners amongst the ranks.

After FootGolf, you have use of our changing facilities to glam up, ready for our buffet which includes a wide selection of food to suit all tastes, and is just what you need after working up an appetite. Relax and unwind in our court yard garden which is the perfect sun trap on summer days.

'I really enjoyed a wonderful afternoon of FootGolf with work colleagues. The setting was beautiful and helped along by a glorious afternoon of sunshine. The staff were extremely helpful and happy which made the experience even more pleasurable. I personally neither play golf or football but still had a lot of fun. I would highly recommend to all.' Claire

'What a truly fantastic way to spend our Summer Company Afternoon out! Had a fantastic time, ...It was so straightforward to organise and the staff at the hotel and golf resort were 100%, couldn't fault them. The buffet was delicious and we picked a lovely day weather-wise, which made it absolutely spot on! Well done Mytton Fold,... we'll be back I'm sure.' Jayne

Obsession Food Festival 16

Each January, Northcote holds its annual food festival - Obsession. It has become a homage to the finest food and wine since it was established in 2001, and is now renowned as one of Europe's premier gastronomic events where guest chefs, travel from around the world to host an evening.

Each chef has an evening to take over the Northcote kitchen and challenge themselves to produce a unique Obsession menu for that evening's guests, which is a showcase for great chefs, a celebration of great food and wine, and a meeting of friends. A must for all Obsession chefs is to create a dish that is meticulous in construction and a feast for all the senses.

Obsession, now in its 16th year, grows and grows each year. Not only does it see guest chefs from around the world, it also brings guests to the Ribble Valley from far and wide and we just love showing them what we have to offer.

Obsession 16 looks set to top last year with a total of 16 evenings planned and a wide range of cuisines to please all taste buds including, Modern French, British, Italian, Indian, South African and Polish, Japanese Haute, Peruvian and Mexican with flavours from Asia and the Mediterranean.

Favourite Christmas Tracks Revealed

A recent survey of the most popular Christmas tracks played in shops, nightclubs, pubs and hotels has shown vintage songs to be top of the list.

Music licensing body PPL, state Band Aid's Do They Know it's Christmas (2014) topped the chart, with The Pogues' Fairytale of New York in second and Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You in third.

Contemporary tracks only creep in, on the back of marketing campaigns such as John Lewis's Christmas advert in 2014 which pushed Tom Odell's version of Real Love into the chart at number nine.

The PPL most played Christmas tracks are:

1. Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014) - by Band Aid 30
2. Fairytale of New York - by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl
3. All I Want For Christmas Is You - by Mariah Carey
4. Driving Home For Christmas - by Chris Rea
5. Last Christmas - by Wham!
6. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - by Wizzard
7. Merry Xmas Everybody - by Slade
8. Merry Christmas Everyone - by Shakin' Stevens
9. Real Love - by Tom Odell
10. Wonderful Christmas Time - by Paul McCartney

What's your favourite Christmas song?

Mine has to be Fairytale of New York by The Pogues - although, I'm a sucker for them all!

Christmas in Numbers

This festive season will see us Brits consume more than 6,500 tonnes of Christmas pudding across the country in November and December, 500 times the weight of Big Ben, and this is just in hotels alone!

Britain's leading purchasing company Beacon, have found consumers will be served around 507 tonnes of turkey every day during November and December, alongside 9.9 million chipolatas and 500 tonnes of stuffing. In addition to the traditional festive turkey, hotels are also expected to serve more than 312 tonnes of fillet steak a day, showing that turkey may not always be the most popular choice.

Just Christmas week alone, this equates to 3,550 tonnes of turkey, 69.6 million chipolatas, 2,18 tonnes of fillet steak and 350 tonnes of stuffing. Joining turkey and fillet steak on our Christmas menus this year is pork, which saw a rise in popularity last year by 1.9%.

I wonder how many sprouts the kitchen need to peel?

Lancashire Tourism Awards

On Thursday 5th November, we attending Marketing Lancashire's annual Lancashire Tourism Awards and were part of a 600 strong audience at The Empress Ballroom in Blackpool's famous Winter Gardens, celebrating Lancashire's tourism economy.

Twenty of the country's finest tourism businesses received awards for excellence in their field, with most of the winners having the opportunity to go on to represent Lancashire in the national Visit England Awards for Excellence 2016.

The evening began with a drinks reception in the Winter Garden's Floral Hall before we took to our seats and enjoyed a delicious 3 course Lancashire inspired dinner catered by Blackpool-based Rowley's Offside.

The awards were hosted by Preston-born, TV journalise Ranvir Singh just a week after she received her own award for Media Personality of the Year at the Asian Media Awards. A proud Lancastrian, Ranvir was pleased to be named by Ruth Connor, Chief Executive of Marketing Lancashire as one of the organisation's first high profile Lancashire Ambassadors.

In her opening speech Ruth Connor said...

'Tourism is big business in Lancashire. Importantly growth is being delivered with over 63 million visitors annually, a £3.6 billion spend and over 56,000 jobs being supported by the visitor economy.'

'We know we have a great tourism story to tell here in Lancashire that is absolutely first class. Our collective goal is simple, more interest and enquiries for Lancashire means more business being generated, a thriving visitor economy that is one of our biggest strengths here in the county.'

'The aim is to grow the tourism sector in Lancashire to 70 million visitors by 2020, increase spend economy in the economy by 3/4 billion pounds and deliver an additional 5000 jobs.'

'There is no better place to be than Lancashire which offers such a high level range and choice for our visitors and residents, that is continually evolving, improving and being invested in.'

Congratulations to all winners, we thoroughly enjoyed our evening and are extremely proud to have been finalists in the following categories:

• Large Hotel Award
• Sustainable Tourism Award
• Customer Service Award
• Visitor Experience Award

Relaxing Christmas House Party

It's nice to get away for Christmas - so relax and let us do the work! We always enjoy Christmas as much as our guests - because we always have such lovely people staying. Christmas with us is a relaxing affair - it's about good food, great service, and good company. What it's not, we promise, is a full-packed programme - this is about doing just as much or as little as you wish to!

On Christmas Eve, enjoy tea and cakes in the lounge from 3pm, before a welcome Prosecco reception and dinner. Christmas Day of course is when lunch is the main event and this evening we'll serve a simple buffet supper to round off the day. There's lots of things to do on Boxing Day - you can visit the Wild Life sanctuary right on the doorstep, take a drive out to Blackpool which is only thirty miles away, or simply explore the rich and historic heritage that is Lancashire and of course lots of lovely Boxing Day sales at Boundary Mill. There's a final dinner this evening but of course you can always stay longer - there is so much to see and places to explore!

We have three fully accessible rooms which meet Level 2 standards with Visit Britain, We also have the Gold Award from Green Tourism in recognition of our commitment to the environment.