Reviews of free, cheap and discounted family days out in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.
The Review One of my followers recommended that I do a review of Wiggington playground a couple of weeks ago but I hadn’t made it over there until this weekend. It’s actually somewhere I’ve driven past many times when dropping the boys off at various scout camps. It had looked like a nice little playground […]
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the review Dockey Wood is part of the Ashridge estate but it has its own car park (see the end of the post re parking). It’s only just around the corner and you could walk between the two if you wanted a relatively long walk. For the full review of Ashridge click here. Each year […]
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College Lake used to be a chalk mine but it has been transformed into an amazing nature reserve, predominantly for wetland birds. There is a wide variety of things to do here. A real must for any bird or wildlife fans.
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Tring, HP23 6AP One for my to-review list It’s been a while since I was down here but the website describes it as: “One of Hertfordshire’s most important ecological areas and one of the Woodland Trust’s most exciting and diverse sites. Just a short walk from the Natural History Museum at Tring, you can discover […]
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This is a lovely area of woodland with numerous footpaths, a large green space, meadow, a pond and a play area for the kids. If your family are Harry Potter fans you might be interested to know the Whomping Willow was actually a tree in Ashridge plus loads of other shows have been filmed here.
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Tring Museum (or Tring Zooseum as middle child likes to call it) is a weird and wonderful way to spend a couple of hours. It houses the Rothschild’s taxidermy collection!
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