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Historical places to visit in Shropshire

Things for Active Kids to do in Shropshire

Family Days Out in Shropshire

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Wonderland

Telford

Wonderland The Award Winning big park for little people, an enchanting place where nursery rhymes and fairytales come to life. Endless rides and a giant indoor play area!

Rays Farm Country Matters

Bridgnorth

Rays Farm Country Matters is a great place to bring the kids to meet our farmyard animals, follow the farmer as he feeds the deer and meet mythical creatures in Fairytale Forest. Older kids can lose energy in the outdoor playarea while toddlers play in the indoor playroom.

Park Hall Countryside Experience

Oswestry

Park Hall Countryside Experience Loads to do - milking, lamb feeding, pony grooming, and cart rides. Huge indoor play arena with toy tractor circuit and bouncy castles. Vintage Garage and Welsh Guards Museum. Exciting extras: Junior Driving School and quad bikes. Great Tearooms and picnic areas.

Acton Scott Working Farm

Church Stretton

Acton Scott Working Farm Has long provided the opportunity to become familiar with the country life of yesteryear. Its Historic Working Farm is a wonderful visitor attraction with daily activities and special events. You will see traditional 19th century farm life unfold daily, while the land around is worked by heavy horses.

Hoo Farm Animal Kingdom

Telford

Hoo Farm Animal Kingdom Shropshire based petting farm and zoo with over 150 different species of animal. Indoor and outdoor demonstrations take place daily including lamb feeding, sheep racing; meet the meerkats and egg collecting. The farm also has an indoor and outdoor play area, cafe and gift shop.

Royal Air Force Museum Cosford

Shifnal

Royal Air Force Museum Cosford - houses one of the largest aviation collections in the United Kingdom. 70 historic aircraft are displayed in three wartime hangars and within the National Cold War Exhibition. Facilities include fun n flight hands-on interactive gallery, art exhibition, Black Hawk Flight Simulator (charges apply) and 4D Experience (charges apply.

Ironbridge Gorge Museums

Coalbrookdale

Ironbridge Gorge Museums Hear it, feel it, see it, do it. Be at the heart of the action and explore your industrial past at the ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums.

The Quarry Swimming and Fitness Centre

Shrewsbury

The Quarry Swimming and Fitness Centre The Quarry pool is one of the biggest in the county at 33 metres long and has: - 6 lanes - 3 diving boards - 51 metre flume - spectator gallery

South Shropshire Leisure Centre

Ludlow

South Shropshire Leisure Centre 25 metre pool with 65 metre Flume Ride

Teme Ludlow

Ludlow

Teme Ludlow Swimming facility with diving pool and boards, leisure pools, plus 65m Flume Slide is open at weekends and in school holidays.

Severn Centre

Highley

Severn Centre Solar panel heated outdoor pool with toddler pools.

Playpit Pirate Adventure

Telford

Playpit Pirate Adventure Large pirate ship play frame offers hours of entertainment with slides, ball pools, crow's nest and special dedicated area for under 3s.

Fuzzy Eds Funhouse

Shrewsbury

Fuzzy Eds Funhouse Play centre attrached to pub, rather like the Wacky Warehouse set-up. Indoor soft play area with toddler space as well as the main climbing play area with the usual selection of soft mayhem equipment.

Wacky Warehouse - Bridge Builder

Telford

Wacky Warehouse - Bridge Builder An indoor play frame attached to a pub - the usual Wacky Warehouse set-up.

Funzone Shropshire Ltd

Whitchurch

Funzone Shropshire Ltd is a children’s soft play centre and cafe. We have a separate baby, toddler and junior area suitable for children aged 0-12 years. Our cafe serves light snacks children’s and adult’s meals and a variety of hot and cold drinks.

Shrewsbury Castle

Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury Castle The Castle houses the spectacular collections of the Shropshire Regimental Museum Trust including pictures, uniforms, medals, weapons and other equipment from the 18th Century to the present day. Special events take place throughout the year.

Hawkstone Park Follies

Shrewsbury

Hawkstone Park Follies Highlights include Grotto Hill, where you can explore a pitch-dark labyrinth of ancient mines cut into the cliff; the Swiss Bridge, a rustic wooden structure perched over an unnervingly deep chasm; the Cleft, a path winding between two cliffs which narrows into a dark, creepy tunnel; and the Monument, a 100ft high column which can be climbed to enjoy panoramic views of up to 13 counties!

Enginuity

Telford

Enginuity Interactive science fun. Find out how a little ingenuity will let you pull a 10 ton locomotive or generate electricity from flowing water. Look at familiar objects with new eyes using the giant X ray machine, build an earthquake proof tower and challenge their robotic arm!

Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre

Craven Arms

Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre A visit to the Secret Hills exhibition will reveal some of the stories hidden in the landscape, offers a range of activities, past-times and opportunities for anyone and everyone.

Ludlow Castle

Ludlow

Ludlow Castle Beautiful ruins, regular events and storytelling folk in costume - who says history can't keep them interested!?

Telford Snowboard and Ski Centre

Telford

Telford Snowboard and Ski Centre The 85 metre slope (and nursery slope facility) provides skiing, snowboarding, tobogganing, ice skating and snowblading activities for adults and juniors of all ages and abilities throughout the year.

Telford Ice Rink

Telford

Telford Ice Rink Our friendly staff and accessible Town Centre location makes for lots of fun, for you and the family, all year round. Whether you are a complete novice or a regular we are always happy to see you. What are you waiting for?...get your skates on.

The Edge Adventure Activities

Much Wenlock

The Edge Adventure Activities Enjoy a huge range of activities including Quad Biking and Trekking, Mountain and Grass Boarding, 4x Mountain Biking, Clay Pigeon Shooting and Off Road Karting.

AMF Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury

AMF Shrewsbury Kids love bowling, and if they are under 6 they can use a ramp and gutter guards. This AMF has 20 lanes!e

Tenpin Telford

Telford

Tenpin Telford is a bowling centre located in the Telford superbowl. We have 26 modern fully computerised lanes, 10 American Pool tables, Amusement Arcades all catered towards families and kids. There is also the Beach Road Cafe Bar for some delicious meal and snack options!

Ludlow Mystery Walking Trail

Ludlow

Ludlow Mystery Walking Trail Ludlow and its castle are perched on a cliff above the picturesque River Teme in south Shropshire, one of the most unspoiled parts of rural England. By following this interesting and exciting Trail you will see and learn stuff that you haven't seen before even if you are local!

Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

Bridgnorth

Bridgnorth Cliff Railway This remarkable funicular railway is the oldest and steepest inland electric cliff railway in the country.

Telford Steam Railway

Telford

Telford Steam Railway A classic and quite delightful working Steam Railway: at 1 in 39 one of the steepest railways in preservation.

Weston Park

Shifnal

Weston Park 1,000 acres of parkland plus special attractions including miniature railway, Woodland Adventure Playground, dress up and games room, woodland walks, lakes and follies to explore, as well as an entertaining guided tour around the house itself.

Shropshire Wildlife Trust

Shrewsbury

Shropshire Wildlife Trust The Saturday craft fairs at their Visitor Centre are free to enter and include activities for children. They also offer a weekday range of arts and crafts workshops for all, and operate activities in woodland nearby.

Nesscliffe Hill Country Park

Oswestry

Nesscliffe Hill Country Park Nesscliffe hill is a sandstone escarpment & is now a country park with various footpaths through the woods. To the north of the hill the ramparts of an old hill fort are present. An old sandstone quarry face forms a spectacular cliff, popular for rock climbing. Cut into the cliff face is a cave reputedly the hideaway of the highwayman Humphrey Kynaston & his horse.

Majestic Cinema

Bridgenorth

Majestic Cinema a fine and all too rare example of a really artistic cinema, and families are given the opportunity to enjoy an atmosphere of genuine luxury through their entertainment.

Odeon Telford

Telford

Odeon Telford Multi screen cinema, children welcome, multiple U and PG screenings particularly throughout the summer.

Royal Stafford Ceramic Cafe

Bursiem

Royal Stafford Ceramic Cafe A place where you can create your own unique and colourful piece of tableware or giftware in an iconic trade setting.

Supercamps

Shrewsbury

Supercamps Activity day camps for children aged 4 to 14 combining Sports and Arts into a fun-fuelled programme keeping children active, alert, safe and happy especially during the Easter and Summer holidays!

Thanks for all the great things to do in Shropshire with kids you keep sending in.
Now we have the easter and summer holidays fast approaching, we're trying to find the best days out and as many fun things to do with kids as possible, especially cheap and free family friendly places to visit this year - theme parks, waterparks and swimming pools, museums, indoor playcentres and softplay for toddlers, petting farms, wildlife parks and zoos, aquariums, horse riding, castles, steam railways, pottery making and ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, karting tracks, snowdomes, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, activity centres, outdoor play at the best local parks, ten pin bowling alleys and all the other best family tourist attractions, that you can visit at the weekend.

Also teachers may find the site useful for ideas for the best places to take their classes on school journeys with many historical and educational atractions listed

So, if you've been for great days out with the kids, or a school trip, which isn't shown above, just send in an email and we'll add it on so people visiting on holidays and all the other children in Shropshire can enjoy the great day out as well.