Sparth House Hotel

About

Sparth House is a Georgian manor house in acres of manicured gardens on the edge of Lancashire's Ribble Valley, named Exclusive Wedding Venue of the Year for England at The English Wedding Awards 2025. It is family-run and exclusive use, with 16 guest bedrooms, so you have the whole country house to yourselves from a licensed indoor ceremony to breakfast the next morning. The wedding team offers personal planning help, shaping the day around your story rather than a set package. It is easy to reach from Manchester, Preston, Leeds and Liverpool while still feeling properly rural.

Sparth House was built in 1740 as a Georgian townhouse and now stands in its own gardens on the edge of the Ribble Valley, a few minutes from Accrington. It works comfortably for smaller weddings from around 40 guests, and whatever your numbers the wedding spaces stay private to your party, with no other wedding using the gardens on the same day.

Two indoor rooms hold civil ceremony licences, and which one you use depends on your guest count. Legal outdoor ceremonies are not currently offered, so the gardens come into their own for drinks and photographs instead. Drinks are usually served in the drawing room and the wedding breakfast in a dining room that works for 40 as easily as 90, while a conservatory, lounge and sitting room give guests somewhere quieter to retreat to. If you are marrying in church elsewhere, the reception can still be held here.

Everything is cooked in house by head chef Calum and his team, with menus built around each couple and meat from a local farm butcher. That also means outside caterers and your own food or drink are not allowed. Upstairs there are 16 bedrooms with breakfast included, and a two-bedroom Garden Apartment is set aside for the two of you and your closest people the night before. Fill all 16 rooms and the whole house is yours with no separate exclusivity charge; otherwise any unused rooms may go to other overnight guests. The in-house planners, Olivia and Emma, look after you from the first viewing to the morning after.

A few practical notes. There is no lift and the bedrooms are not suitable for wheelchair users, although the ground floor and gardens are. Music stops at 12.30am from Monday to Saturday and at midnight on Sundays, and fireworks are not permitted because the house sits in a residential area. Dogs are welcome at the ceremony and drinks but cannot stay overnight. Manchester and Preston are each about 45 minutes away.

What makes it special

• Named Exclusive Wedding Venue of the Year for England at The English Wedding Awards 2025, providing independently verified assurance of quality
• Full exclusive use of the entire Georgian manor house, gardens and 16 guest bedrooms ensures a completely private and personalised wedding weekend
• Family-run ethos means a genuinely warm, attentive and personal service that large hotel venues simply cannot replicate

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