Upcoming events
2027
30th anniversary year of ACE
Annual Dinner - 26th February - The Bentley Brook Inn, Fenny Bentley
Spring Run - details to be developed
Summer Run - details to be developed
Ashbourne Classic Car Festival - 1st August - Ashbourne Town centre……………………………………...……..put a note in your diary!
Autumn Run - details to be developed
ACE Annual General Meeting - date to be set
other events will be added during the year so watch this space
Noggin & Natter
Informal lunches are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at The Shoulder of Mutton at Osmaston near Ashbourne (DE6 1LW). All are welcome!
Note that there will not be a Noggin & Natter in December because The Shoulder of Mutton is fully booked with Christmas events
2026
ACE Annual General Meeting - Wednesday 4th November - The Royal Oak, Mayfield
Past events
More photographs will be added when they become available
Click to see the Rally Plaques used on our events
2026
The Black Country Living Museum - 27th September
ACE holiday at Sandburn Hall - 14th to 17th September
Ashbourne Classic Car Festival - 2nd August
Eyam, Derbyshire - Stella’s Kitchen restaurant at Foolow
Dunham Massey National Trust Estate, Cheshire
2025
ACE Annual Dinner at The Bentley Brook Inn, Fenny Bentley
Hemswell antique centre near Gainsborough
Cow themed trip around the Peak District
Melbourne Hall and gardens
Holiday at Llandrindod Well, Powys
Heage Windmill near Belper
2024
Gladstone Pottery, Stoke on Trent
Lyme Park National Trust estate at Disley, Cheshire
Holiday at Harrogate
Millers Dale & Peak Forest
2023
Claymills Pumping Station at Burton on Trent
Statfold Barn railway near Tamworth
ACE Holiday at Chichester, West Sussex
2022
Barrow Hill roundhouse locomotive museum near Chesterfield
25th Anniversary run ending for tea at Clifton Village hall
ACE Holiday at Betwys-y-Coed, Wales
Quarry Bank Mill at Styal, Wilmslow
Greta British Car Journey at Ambergate
2021
Treasure hunt around Ashbourne area
Garden party at Snelston
Gulliver’s Kingdom at Matlock Bath
2020
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2019
National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas
Holiday in Alsace, France
North mill at Belper
Holiday in the Oxford area
Calke Abbey
2018
Hardwick Hall National Trust house
Garden party at Lupin Farm
ACE Holiday in Hexham, Northumberland
Motor Museum at Coventry
2017
Abbey pumping station and Space Centre, Leicester
Farm tea after Peak District run
Capesthorpe Hall
ACE 20th birthday party at Clifton Village Hall
Picnic at Snelston
Holiday at The Pheasant Hotel, Kelling, Norfolk
Arkwright Mill, Cromford
Castern Hall Christmas visit
2016
Hodstock Priory
Stratford upon Avon
Holiday at Honfleur, Normandy, France
Wedgwood factory visit, Stoke on Trent
Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire
2015
Wittington barracks, Litchfield
Red Carpet cinema at Barton under Needwood
Whitmore Hall, Newcastle under Lyme
ACE on Donington Park race track
ACE Holiday on the Isle of Wight
2014
National Waterways museum, Ellesmere Port
Melbourne Hall and gardens
Taylor’s bell foundry, Loughborough
Holiday at The Lakeside Hotel at Windermere
2013
Portland Basin, Ashton under Lyne
Doveleys Garden Centre on Drive-it-Day
Shugborough Hall
Holiday in Isle of Man
Visit JWA Racing at Eccleshall
2012
Rutland Water - Trip on the ‘Rutland Belle’
Holiday to the Ardennes, Belgium
Little Moreton Hall and Blaze Farm tea room
Hanbury; Fould lecture
2011
Wightwick Manor near Wolverhampton
Churnet Valley railway at Cheddleton
Conkers Picnic and Bass brewing centre
ACE on Donington Park race track
ACE holiday at Malvern
2010
Chatsworth House followed by BBQ
Secret Nuclear Bunker near Nantwich
Holiday in Ireland
Tour of three historic Derbyshire churches
2009
Ecclesbourne valley railway with meal on train
Kelham Island museum at Sheffield
Picnic at Pikehall harness races
Renishaw Hall
ACE Holiday at Winchester
2008
BBQ at Yeaveley estate
Northwich Salt Museum & Lion Salt works
National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas
Lubrizol fun day near Duffield
Holiday at Ploermel, Brittany, France
Ashbourne ‘Antiques in the Street’ event
2007
ACE holiday in Harrogate
Old Warden & Bletchley Park
Bolsover Castle
2006
Belton House, Grantham
2005
ACE holiday in Shropshire
Crich tramway museum
Quarry Bank mill, Styal, Cheshire
2004
Anderton boat lift, Cheshire
Mary Queen of Scots tour at Wingfield Manor
Ragley Hall, Warwickshire
ACE holiday in Colchester
2003
Lyme Park, Cheshire
2002
Belvoir Castle
Chatsworth
ACE holiday in the North Yorkshire moors
2001
Jodrell Bank??
2000
Whitmore Hall??
1999
Macclesfield forest & Tittesworth reservoir
Calke Abbey
1998
Belper North Mill: the first ACE club run!!