Free things to do and visit

There are so many fantastic, completely free things to do with your family and places to visit in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire. There’s lots of free things to do outside, but thankfully there’s plenty indoors too. On the free things to do page you’ll find museums, historical sites, parks, woodlands, walks, lakes and much more. We even have a castle just minutes away that won’t cost you a penny to get into!!!

Here are just a few that I’ve found. Click the images to read the full reviews;

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Canal Fields playground and skate park, Berkhamsted, Herts

Verulamium Park, St Albans, Herts

Coombe Hill, Wendover, Bucks

College Lake, Tring, Hertfordshire

Oxford Natural History Museum

Tetsworth Playground, Oxfordshire

Gadebridge Park, Hemel Hempstead

Tibbs Road Playground, Haddenham, Bucks

Towersey playing fields, South Oxon

Leighton Buzzard Splash Park and Beach

Bourton Park, Buckingham

Jordan’s Mill, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire

Jubilee Green, Wing, Bucks

Rickmansworth Aquadrome, Hertfordshire

Cuttle Brook Nature Reserve, Thame, Oxon

Southern Road Recreation Ground, Thame, Oxon

The Phoenix Trail, Princes Risborough to Thame

Kingsbrook Playgrounds, Aylesbury

Shardeloes Lake / South Bucks Way nr Amersham, Bucks

Hughenden Park, High Wycombe, Bucks

Bucks County Museum, Aylesbury

Bernwood Forest, Oxon


Ashridge Estate, Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire

Cedars Park, Waltham Cross, Herts

Brill Common and Windmill, Bucks

Aston Clinton Ragpits, Buckinghamshire

Ivinghoe Beacon, Buckinghamshire

Finemere Wood, nr. Quainton, Bucks

Tring Park, Tring, Hertfordshire

Wilstone Reservoir, nr. Tring, Hertfordshire

Tiddenfoot Waterside Park, Leighton Buzzard, Beds

Cowleaze Wood nr. Stokenchurch

Ling Ride, Ashridge Estate, Hertfordshire

Witchell Meadow, Hampden Meadow & Hampden Pond, Wendover, Bucks

Waddesdon Greenway, Buckinghamshire

Ampthill Great Park, Ampthill, Bedfordshire

Houghton House, Ampthill, Bedfordshire

Barn Meadow Recreation Ground, Amersham, Bucks

History of Science Museum, Oxford

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Weston Library, Oxford

Roman Park Play Area, Berryfields, Aylesbury

The Barn, Hulcott
Nr Aylesbury

St Albans Museum & Gallery, Hertfordshire

St Albans Cathedral, Hertfordshire

The definitive guide to Aylesbury’s parks, play areas and playgrounds

Leighton Buzzard Children’s Trail, Bedfordshire

Swinley Forest, Bracknell, Berkshire

Hinksey Park and Splash Park

Wiggington Playground, Nr Tring, Hertfordshire

Desborough Rec Ground, High Wycombe

Wycombe Museum, High Wycombe

Cutteslowe Park and Splash Park, Oxford

Roundhead Drive, Thame Playground

Grove Farm PYO, Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire

Haddenham Playground, Bucks

Aylesbury Canalside

The Pirate Playground,
Halton Camp, Wendover

Dockey Wood,
Nr Ashridge, Hertfordshire

Aston Rowant Nature Reserve,
Buckinghamshire

Stockwood Discovery Centre,
Luton

Halton Camp Playground,
nr Wendover

The RAF Museum, London

White Hill Park,
Aylesbury

Aylesbury Library

Avebury Manor and Stone Circle,
Wiltshire

Tring Natural History Museum, Hertfordshire

Narbeth Drive Park, Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Little Milton Playground, Oxfordshire

Aston Clinton Park, Buckinghamshire

The Rye, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Whiteleaf Hill and Cross, Monks Risborough
Buckinghamshire

The British Museum, London

Vale Park, Aylesbury

Bedgrove Park, Aylesbury

Whipsnade Tree Cathedral, Bedfordshire

Tring Park, Hertfordshire

War Memorial Recreation Ground, Stone,
Buckinghamshire

Berkhamstead Castle, Berkhamstead
Hertfordshire

Watermead Lakes, Aylesbury

Buryfield Recreation Ground, Great Missenden
Buckinghamshire

Marston Green Play Area, Berryfields,
Aylesbury

The National Maritime Museum, London

Millets Farm Centre,
Oxfordshire