A Visit to King’s Landing Historical Village

We spent a beautiful day exploring King’s Landing this summer and we want to share it with you! What we love about visiting this historical village is that it gives you the chance to jump into the past, the 19th century to be exact. 

As we strolled along, we were able to meet the “villagers” in their homes or places of work, talk about what was happening in their day and even pitch in and help with tasks and chores. We met mothers and teachers, farmers and a millwright, a blacksmith and a printer,and even storekeepers and carpenters, just to name a few. We helped harvest a garden, boil and dry wool, spin yarn and spool thread.  We helped at the printery, blacksmith shop and sat in on a lesson at school.  All this while strolling through farmland and watching chickens and roosters wander, young cattle, horses, sheep and goats in their fields and even pigs rolling about in their muddy pens.

We highly recommend a stop at The King’s Head  for a refreshing lunch…costumed servers spoiled us with fresh brown bread and butter.  We next hopped on a  horse and wagon ride to travel from one end of  the site to the other, as this village contains 70 historical buildings on over 300 beautiful acres.  We visited a few of the exhibits and had a chance to dress in traditional costumes, this was a huge hit with us all! 

We arrived when the doors opened and left when they closed and still we didn’t see it all!     If you are near New Brunswick’s capital of Fredericton, we highly recommend this gem!  Pictures speak louder than words, so we hope you enjoy a few captures from our day.

We are already planning our next visit!  Have you been to King’s Landing?

-Sue