Wigan Food and Drink Festival 1st to the 11th of March.

We will be celebrating Wigan’s twinning with Angers with our French weekend from the 2nd to 4th March, an extensive menu of classic French dishes, with French wines and beers to match.

From the 8th to the 11th of March we will be running a beer festival (theme tbc) culminating in our Beer and Food Matching evening.
An 8 course taster menu with a beer to match each course.
It sold out last year so be quick to book!

The Cooperative Folk Club Merry March Meet – Friday and Saturday 9th and 10th of March at The Crown, Standish

Entry by ticket only but this is a free event!

Artist include, Back in Business, Sid Calderbank, Mark Dowding, Malc Gibbons, Derek Gifford, Chris Harvey, Andy and Barbara Hindley, Ken Howar, Nine Tenths Below, One Accord, Tom Perry, Quartz, Peter and Barbara Snape, Strawhead and Alison Younger

Call the Crown for ticket details

Celebrate the world famous St. Patrick Day at The Crown at Worthington – Saturday 17th March

We have a superb live Irish band,  traditional Irish stew supper and some proper traditional cask conditioned stouts and Irish whiskeys.

If you enjoy a fantastic time, the craic, great company, superb music and some really special traditional cask stout – then The Crown at Worthington, Standish is the place to be! …Read more

Mother’s day is dedicated to saying thank you and what better place to express your gratitude than at The Crown

Our chefs have designed a special menu of freshly prepared dishes that are exquisite 

The food is prepared with the tenderness and loving care that your mum deserves …Read more

 Easter weekend at The Crown is going to be eggstremely full of fun for the entire family.

We have a cracking programme full of activities that rolls from the 6th April to 9th April.

So come along and enjoy the fun and enjoy Easter with your family at The Crown.

Have you ever wondered why….

The Easter bunny bring us decorated eggs ? 

The Anglo-Saxons worshipped a Goddess known as Eostre (originating from Babylonian times) who was playful and signified fertility and rebirth.  Her reign over the earth began at the Vernal Equinox marking the first day of Spring.  Legend has it that Eostre found a wounded bird and transformed it into a hare, so that it could survive the Winter. The hare found it could lay eggs, so it decorated these each Spring and left them as offering to the goddess. 

How is it that the Anglo-Saxons could think this? The Lapwing bird makes nests at ground level resembling a hare’s nest (forms).  The abandoned nests were perceived to belong to hares and people believed the orphaned eggs were of the hare. This gave them the belief that hares could lay eggs during springtime. 

The Christian religion adapted the celebration of Eostre and eggs became to signify new birth, the outer shell demonstrating that of the tomb of Christ and the chick signifying new life.