Katy & Adam
Travel & Stays
Owen House is a farm at the end of a country lane in Cheshire, in the middle of December, and there is no bus home.
The way in
Our honest advice, in order
The short version
Stay on site.
There are 17 guest rooms and we've been given a secret code to unlock them. It's the best night you'll have.
If you can't, book a taxi now.
It's December, just before Christmas. We expect them to be 'uber' busy (like what I did there)
By car, rail or air
Getting here
Owen House Wedding Barn, Small Lane, Mobberley, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 7NY
Open in MapsRural Cheshire postcodes cover a lot of ground, and Owen House sits between Small Lane and Wood Lane, which confuses some devices. Search for "Owen House Wedding Barn" by name in Google Maps or Waze rather than typing the postcode in. If your device offers you a farm gate down an unlit single-track lane with no barn in sight, you've got the wrong one — turn around.
By car
- Free on-site parking, right by the barn.
- Cars can be left overnight if you're not fit to drive — please collect by mid-morning.
- No campervans or motorhomes overnight, sorry — that's a venue rule, not ours.
The lanes around Mobberley are narrow, unlit and have no pavements. In December they can be muddy and occasionally icy. Take it slowly, and if you're arriving after dark — which, in late December, is most of the time — give yourself an extra ten minutes.
Treat the times below as a guide. The M56 and M6 can be grim in the run-up to Christmas.
Rough drive times
- Stockport
- 30 mins
- Leigh
- 37 mins
By train
Mobberley station is on the Mid-Cheshire line (Manchester Piccadilly to Chester via Altrincham), roughly 35 minutes from Manchester Piccadilly, with about one train an hour. It is a very small station — two platforms, a level crossing, no ticket office, no taxi rank and no shelter to speak of. It's around a 10-minute drive from the venue, and not a walk you want to attempt in the dark in December in good shoes.
Wilmslow is the bigger, better-connected option: direct trains from London Euston, Birmingham and the north, and a proper taxi rank outside.
If you're coming by train, pre-book a taxi to meet you at the station. Please don't assume one will be waiting.
Do check the 23rd December timetable nearer the time — engineering work and festive timetables are a British Christmas tradition.
By plane
Manchester Airport (MAN) is the nearest airport, about 20 minutes away by car. If you're flying in, a pre-booked transfer is easily the least stressful option.
Stay on the farm
Our strong recommendation
Staying at Owen House
We'd love as many of you as possible to stay on site.
Partly because it's lovely: the rooms are individually designed and named — Los Pollos, Warhol Retreat, Koko, Dan Aykroyd's Room, Narnia — with Villeroy & Boch bathrooms, proper beds, Nespresso machines and flat-screen TVs. Partly because everything is 100–150 yards from the barn, so there's no taxi, no cold wait, no leaving at half nine to catch a lift. You can go back to your room, get your coat, and come back out again.
Breakfast in The Tool Shed
Best of all is the morning after. Breakfast is served cantina-style in a converted container fitted out with one long communal table: bacon rolls, pastries, artisan breads, cereal, fruit and yoghurt, teas and filter coffee, with vegetarian and vegan options. It's included in every room rate.
Everyone piles in, in various states of repair, and picks over the night before. It's one of the best bits of the whole thing, and you can't get it any other way.
The secret code
How to book
The venue keeps our wedding date closed to the public — to the outside world it looks fully booked. The code unlocks it.
- Go to owenhousefarm.co.uk and click Book your stay (or go straight to the booking system).
- Search for 23rd December 2026. It'll show as unavailable — that's expected.
- Enter the code K&A2026 in the secret code box. The page will refresh.
- Choose your room and book.
One thing that catches people out: the rooms you're shown depend on how many guests you search for. Search for 4 people and you'll only see family rooms; search for 2 and you won't see the family rooms at all. If a room you expected isn't showing, change the guest number and look again.
The rooms
Per room for the night, breakfast included.
Double
£175
The Tens · Sleeps 2
Hunters Lodge, No. 47, The Bull Room, Dan Aykroyd's Room, Koko, King of Soho, The Don, The Bell
Family
£200
The Tens · Sleeps 4
Narnia I and Narnia II — one double plus two singles
King
£190
The Chicken Coops · Sleeps 2, or 3 on request
Los Pollos, Warhol Retreat, Le Coq
King Family
£210
The Chicken Coops · Sleeps 4
Rhode Island
Farmhouse B&B
£160
The farmhouse · Sleeps 2
Two doubles and a twin, all en-suite, with their own downstairs breakfast room
Prices are subject to periodic review by the venue.
The Chicken Coops are the ones with the hand-crafted steel and oak staircase up to a mezzanine, a King bed and views over the farm. The Tens are the converted stock shed — doubles and family rooms with Wrought Iron & Brass Bed Company beds. The Farmhouse B&B is three rooms in the farmhouse itself, all en-suite.
Third guest in a King room: all three King rooms can take a third person on an extra camp bed. We're saying that plainly so nobody arrives expecting a third proper bed. Arrange it with the venue directly.
Accessibility
- Rhode Island (King Family, Chicken Coops) has a fully accessible bathroom and can be used as a disabled-access room.
- The Farmhouse twin is on the ground floor for step-free access.
If you need either of these, or anything else, please tell us early — there's one of each, and we'd rather they went to the people who need them. Drop us a message, or email the venue directly.
Checking in
- Check-in
- From 1pm on the day
- Check-out
- 10am the next morning
- Keys
- The venue emails you an access code for your room before you arrive — keep it on your phone
- In the room
- WiFi, Cloud 9 hairdryers, tea and coffee, and a Nespresso machine
- On the day
- The whole site is exclusively ours — no members of the public
Tuesday 22nd December
Coming the night before?
You can. And there's £50 a room off if you do.
This is a genuinely good idea if you're travelling any distance, if you're in the wedding party, or if you just fancy easing into it rather than doing a motorway sprint on the morning. There's a whole evening to be had — order food and drink into the Tool Shed and the venue will throw in a bottle of fizz, or head out for dinner in Mobberley or Knutsford. Use the same code, K&A2026, and select 22nd December.
Already booked and want to add a night? Email the venue at stay@owenhousefarm.co.uk and they'll extend it for you.
Night-before rates
- Double
- £125
- Family
- £150
- King
- £140
- King Family
- £160
- Farmhouse B&B
- £110
Please book the night before early
Unlike our wedding night, the 22nd is not exclusively ours. The venue is holding the rooms behind our code for now, but they open to the general public three months before the wedding — from Wednesday 23rd September 2026.
After that it's first come, first served against the public, in the week before Christmas, in a part of Cheshire that fills up. If you want the night before, book it by Tuesday 22nd September 2026.
Please read this bit
Taxis
We're getting married on 23rd December — reliably one of the busiest nights of the year for taxis anywhere in the UK. Christmas parties, works dos, everyone home for the holidays and out at once. Rural Cheshire has a limited number of cars, and they will all be spoken for.
Don't plan to call a taxi on the night. Book it now, with a firm, for a specific time. Carriages are at 12.30am.
- Uber is unreliable out here. Coverage in the lanes around Mobberley is patchy at the best of times, and on the 23rd you may find nothing at all. Please don't make it your plan.
- Some firms switch to pre-booked-only over Christmas. Another reason to sort it in advance.
If you're at all uncertain, stay on site. It solves this entire problem.
Local firms
If you're a group, ask about a minibus — usually cheaper per head, and far easier to secure than three separate cars at midnight.
If the on-site rooms are gone
Other places to stay nearby
If the on-site rooms are gone, or a farm bedroom isn't your thing, there are plenty of options — you're spoilt, really. In rough order of distance.
Mobberley
NearestA couple of pubs with rooms, a short taxi ride away.
Knutsford
15 minutesA proper little town with a good range of hotels, inns and B&Bs, plus places to eat if you're making a weekend of it.
Wilmslow and Alderley Edge
15 minutesWell connected by train, and an easy run back out to the venue.
Manchester Airport hotels
20 minutesUseful if you're flying in or out, and often the best value at short notice.
Two things to bear in mind: December is peak season for hotels around Manchester, so book early — and whatever you book, sort your taxi at the same time. A room ten minutes away is only ten minutes away if something can come and get you.
The venue is very happy to make recommendations for anyone they can't accommodate — email stay@owenhousefarm.co.uk.
A farm, in midwinter
December things worth knowing
It gets dark early. Very early.
Sunset on 23rd December is around 3:52pm, and it'll be properly dark by half four. Plan your drive accordingly — and if you want photos in daylight, don't be late.
It will be cold, and it's a farm.
Some of the loveliest bits of Owen House are outdoors — the patio, the paddocks, the covered barn, the pond. Bring a proper coat you don't mind being seen in, and think carefully about shoes. Grass, gravel and December are not a forgiving combination. Nobody has ever regretted packing a spare pair of flats.
Christmas travel.
The 23rd is one of the busiest getaway days of the year on both the roads and the railways. If you're travelling any distance, leave earlier than you think you need to.
Designated drivers, thank you.
You're heroes. There's free parking, plenty of soft drinks, and you can leave the car overnight if plans change.
Questions?
Ask our wedding chatbot — it knows the venue, the rooms, the logistics and most of the answers, and it's awake at 2am when you suddenly wonder about parking.
For anything about rooms, bookings or extending your stay, the venue are lovely and will help directly. For anything else, just message us. We'd genuinely rather answer a daft question in August than have you stuck in a lane in December.
K & A