Soulton Hall is holding a special trio of highly popular heritage tours of the historic building which has links to the Tudors and Shakespeare.

A heritage day will look at “the story of defiance to oppression, of artistic inspiration, and of the dawn of a new age” at the house during the turn of the 17th Century.

Former owner Sir Rowland Hill was a pivotal figure during the Reformation and served on the Privy Councils of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

He used the hall as a clandestine base for the publication of the Geneva Bible -one of the early English bibles which pre dates the King James Bible by half a century.

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The tour will also look at how Sir Rowland, through his network of contacts and his passion for the arts, played a pivotal role in igniting the creative spark of William Shakespeare, his cousin through Mary Arden – with the idyllic setting and clandestine activities within Soulton Hall thought to have inspired the beloved comedy As You Like It.

Soulton Hall is described as a "tangible connection to the Tudor Period and Elizabethan Golden Age, a period of unparalleled danger, creativity and intellectual awakening”.

The tour includes the concealed chapel, priests hide, a sense of some of the Renaissance codes, the chess court and Wren Steps, the 'As You Like It' dancing pavement and the Rowland Hill furniture.

Previous tours have proven very popular with tickets selling out quickly.

There will be three dates available: Sunday, September 1, from 2pm to 3.45pm; Sunday, October 6, from 2pm to 3.45pm; and Sunday, November 3, from 2pm to 3.45pm.

Tickets, which can be bought here, cost £25 and includes tea and cake.