The Kitchen at Ordsall Hall

The present day kitchen dates back to the 1630s. It probably replaced a kitchen dating from the 1500s, which would have been located roughly in the same area and included a brew houses, buttery and pantry.
Today, the kitchen is set as if preparing for the wedding feast of Sir John Radclyffe to Lady Ann Asshawe in May 1572. Once the hub of the Hall, the kitchen is now alive with the sights, sounds and smells of Tudor Salford - a time when the Hall was once described as “A manor house of exceptional beauty”.
Highlights of the present kitchen include:
Victorian bread ovens
A four metre-deep well
An interactive Tudor menu
Authentic herbs, reproduction food and kitchen implements to touch and smell
A working rotating spit