Heveningham Concours 2025 – Full Event Details 🚗✈️

Event Overview 📅

Name: Heveningham Concours

Dates: June 28-29, 2025

Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily 🕙

Location: Heveningham Hall, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 0PN, UK 🏛️

 

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What Three Words: Roosters.Kick.Hers 📍

Event Type: Concours d’Elegance (motor cars and historic aircraft), held within the Heveningham Hall Country Fair 🎡

Inaugurated: 2016 🏁

Description: A prestigious event showcasing ~50 of the world’s finest motor cars 🚘 and a dozen historic propeller aircraft ✈️, displayed on the grass terraces and parkland of Heveningham Hall, a Grade I-listed Georgian mansion. Includes Horsepower Hill 🏎️, a 1/8-mile sprint, and the Heveningham Tour, a 50-mile scenic drive through Suffolk 🌳. All proceeds support local charities and a scholarship for a Master’s degree in Intelligent Mobility at the Royal College of Art 🎓.

How to Get There 🗺️

Address: Heveningham Hall, Heveningham, Halesworth, Suffolk, IP19 0PN 🏡

By Car 🚗:

Well sign-posted via the B1117 between Heveningham and Huntingfield villages 🚦.

Ample free parking available on-site 🅿️.

From London, ~100 miles (2-3 hours drive, depending on traffic). Major routes include the A12 to Saxmundham, then B1117 🛣️.

By Public Transport 🚂:

Nearest train station: Halesworth (4 miles away) or Saxmundham (10 miles away), served by Greater Anglia trains from London Liverpool Street 🚉.

Taxis or local buses (limited service) available from Halesworth to the venue. Pre-booking transport recommended 📞.

Navigation: Use postcode IP19 0PN for sat-nav or the What Three Words location (Roosters.Kick.Hers) 🧭.

Tickets 🎟️

Purchase: Available at heveninghamconcours.com/tickets 🌐.

Cost:

Heveningham Hall Country Fair ticket required for Concours entry: £15 for adults, free for children 👨‍👩‍👧.

Concours-specific tickets: £25 for adults, £57 for a family ticket (includes Country Fair access) 💷.

Restrictions:

No dogs 🐶, food 🍔, drink 🥤, or wheeled devices (including wheelchairs, mobility scooters, strollers) allowed in the Concours area due to insurance requirements 🚫.

No unaccompanied children permitted in the Concours area 👶.

Who Will Attend 👥

 

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Attendees:

Car and aviation enthusiasts, collectors, and industry professionals 🚗✈️.

Notable guests in 2024 included Sandra Button (Pebble Beach Concours Chairman), designers Peter Stevens and Tony Hatter, racing driver Marino Franchitti, Prodrive chairman David Richards, and Magneto editor David Lillywhite. Similar high-profile attendees expected in 2025 🌟.

Over 20,000 visitors annually, including international attendees from places like Hawaii and Australia 🌍.

Judges: A panel of automotive and aviation experts, chaired by Max Hunt, awards prizes such as Best in Show and the Hanna Aviation Trophy 🏆.

Participants:

Owners of invited classic and modern supercars (by invitation only) 🚘.

Owners of historic propeller aircraft for the Aviation Concours ✈️.

Historic Cars and Aircraft 🏎️✈️

Cars: ~50 vehicles, from pre-war classics to modern hypercars, displayed on Kim Wilkie-designed grass terraces 🌄. Categories include pre-war, post-war, exotic cars, and competition vehicles 🏁.

Aircraft: ~12 rare historic propeller aircraft, judged for the Hanna Aviation Trophy 🏅. Some aircraft may perform flyovers during the event ✈️.

Horsepower Hill: A 1/8-mile sprint along the estate’s main drive, featuring classic and contemporary supercars 🏎️💨.

Heveningham Tour: A 50-mile drive through Suffolk countryside for Concours entrants, including a gourmet lunch stop 🍴🌳.

 

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Highlights from Past Years 🌟

2024:

Featured an ex-Nigel Mansell 1989 Ferrari 640 F1 (first F1 car with semi-automatic paddle-shift transmission) 🏎️ and a 1937 Delahaye 135 MS Coupé (first appearance post-restoration) 🚗.

A Sunbeam Tiger that completed the Peking to Paris rally and a 1932 Alfa Romeo Tipo Monoposto (competed in Indy 500) were showcased 🏁.

Fastest car on Horsepower Hill: Ferrari 488 Pista Spider 🏎️💨.

Hanna Aviation Trophy awarded to a 1943 Spitfire MkIX ✈️🏆.

2023:

Celebrated the centenary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with cars like a 1983 Porsche 956 (driven by Ayrton Senna), a 1958 Lister-Jaguar ‘Knobbly,’ and a 1931 ‘Blower’ Bentley 🏎️.

Manolo Blahnik hosted a luxury shoe design experience 👠.

2021:

Included stunt horse riders 🐎, vintage aircraft flyovers (Spitfire and Messerschmitt) ✈️, and a high-performance boat display on the lake ⛵.

2025 Highlights 🎉

Focus on significant automotive anniversaries (e.g., 70 years of the Citroën DS, 60 years of the Ford Mustang) 🚗.

New aircraft additions, possibly including rare WWII-era planes ✈️.

Enhanced Horsepower Hill with more supercar sprints 🏎️💨.

Expanded Heveningham Tour with new routes through Suffolk’s scenic countryside 🌳.

Continued charity focus, supporting local causes and the RCA scholarship 🎓.