‘Why would we go to America first?’ London’s Groucho Club to open in Yorkshire

Private members' club chooses unlikely location of Wakefield for inaugural branch outside capital

The Groucho Club, the private members' club known for its hell-raising 39-year history in the heart of London's Soho is expanding for the first time to an unlikely location: the heart of the West Yorkshire countryside.

The club's first outpost will be located at Bretton Hall in Wakefield, the former arts education facility that sits within the grounds of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which will be converted into a club and hotel with about 60 rooms.