Family Days Out in wiltshire
Brokerswood Country Park
Westbury
Brokerswood Country Park - visitors can spend a day and experience the Woodland railway, Adventureland, Play Trails, Heritage Centre and toddler undercover play area as well as simply enjoying the tranquillity of a woodland with the sights and sounds of nature all around them.
Longleat
Warminster
Longleat The star of BBC's hugely popular Animal Park series invites you to encounter some of the worlds most magnificent animals in the UK's first Safari Park, get lost in the Longleat Hedge Maze, voyage on the Safari Boats, discover the treasures of Longleat House and much much more... your day at Longleat will never be long enough!
Studley Grange Garden and Leisure Park
Swindon
Studley Grange Garden and Leisure Park Butterfly World, part of the Studley Grange garden and leisure park, is the place to visit rain or shine. See hundreds of beautiful butterflies, flying against a backdrop of tropical plants and flowers. Waterfalls cascade down into ponds full of fish. The mini beast section includes insects, reptiles and amphibians.
Bowood House & Gardens
Calne
Bowood House & Gardens Children love Bowood! There's space to run and play and beautiful parkland and a waterfall to enjoy, but the main reason kids love Bowood is because it's home to one of the best adventure playgrounds in the country.
Roves Farm
Swindon
Roves Farm - lots to do including: Meet & Feed the Animals, Tractor & trailer rides, worlds largest living willow maze, willow village, bouncy castle and ball pond, big bale straw stack, heated indoor soft play area and giant sandpit, crafty half-hour, animal racing for charity and granary tearoom.
Cholderton Charlie's Farm
Salisbury
Cholderton Charlie's Farm Cholderton Farm boasts sheep, pigs, goats, cows, ponies, rabbits and poultry. Kids can also explore the indoor play barn and climbing wall, take part in a nature trail through an ancient wood with glades and a badgers sett and even race piglets!
STEAM - Museum of the GWR
Swindon
STEAM - Museum of the GWR STEAM is a great day out for the whole family. Follow the incredible story of the GWR through lots of imaginative displays and plenty of hands-on exhibits. Build a bridge and shunt wagons. Have a go at putting a locomotive together. Take a ride on our train-driving simulator.
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
Salisbury
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Offering interactive galleries and workshops for children, the Museum provides entertainment and an educational experience for children of all ages.
Oasis Leisure Centre
Swindon
Oasis Leisure Centre Lagoon Swimming Pool, -with 'new' pirate ship under 8s play feature, 3 giant water slide ('Domebusters'), Wavemachine, Watercannon and Hydroslide.
Bonkers Childrens Indoor Play Centre
Swindon
Bonkers Childrens Indoor Play Centre - offer a unique play area, featuring BALL CANNONS, MAGIC BALL JUGGLERS, VOLCANO, ROLLER RACERS - how do they work? - BALL LIFTERS, and many other items of interactive equipment, suitable for ALL ages.
Jolly Roger Adventure
Swindon
Jolly Roger Adventure - has got bouncy castles, and an amazing soft adventure play area to keep the kids amused. Why don't they take a dip in one of our ball pools, or dare they or even your self ride 'The Drop', its over 31 ft long. And now we have one of the BIGGEST indoor astra slides in the country it's fast, its the latest addition to the Jolly Roger's list of fun.
Coral Cove Party and Adventure Centre
Devizes
Coral Cove Party and Adventure Centre childrens indoor soft play centre in Devizes.
Boomerang Play Centre
Melkesham
Boomerang Play Centre Kids indoor play centre with a separate area for toddlers.
Kidz About Adventure Play
Swindon
Kidz About Adventure Play We have space to play the Kidz About about way!
Run around in 12,000 square feet of space that includes play equipment rising to an amazing 6.5m, a four lane astraslide, dropslide, superb twisting spiral slide, separate play area for toddlers and a football/basketball pitch.
Stonehenge
Amesbury
Stonehenge - stands as a timeless testimony to the people who built it, between 3000BC and 1500BC. An amazing feat of engineering and arguably the most sophisticated stone circle in the world, it remains a mystery.
Tenpin Swindon
Swindon
Tenpin Swindon - 32 bowling lanes of fun - and a great idea for a childrens birthday party
Link Leisure Centre Ice Skating
Swindon
Link Leisure Centre Ice Skating - as well as being the site of Swindon's ice rink, the Link centre boasts a traditional swimming pool, climbing wall, sports hall, active lifestyle centre,
fitness room, sauna, jacuzzi, solarium & snooker room.
Swindon and Cricklade Steam Railway
Swindon
Swindon and Cricklade Steam Railway - the kids love a day out on a steam train. There are special event weekends throughout the year including Thomas The Tank Engine days, Easter Bunny Rides & Santa Specials All aboard!!!
Lydiard Park
Swindon
Lydiard Park The park has a visitor centre that houses countryside displays and a café. Lydiard Park also has exciting adventure playgrounds for toddlers and older children including an aerial runway. Paths and trails through the woods and by the lake offer glimpses of the many animals and birds which make Lydiard their home.
Splash of Colour Ceramic and Craft Cafe
Salisbury
Splash of Colour Ceramic and Craft Cafe We are are ceramic café which is a walk in studio offering a wide selection of pottery from normal household pieces to fun and wacky things for kids. These are all white and unglazed just waiting to be painted with a design or picture.
Crackpot Ceramics
Marlborough
Crackpot Ceramics is somewhere for you to pick your own piece of pottery to paint in the studio or at home. You then leave the finished piece with us so that we can glaze and fire it ready for you to take home after a couple of days.
Huntfun Salisbury Treasure Hunt
Salisbury
Huntfun Salisbury Treasure Hunt Treasure hunts are great fun! Kids will enjoy beating adults to solve the clues! No prior knowledge required - all clues are solved by observation. Visit somewhere new or try a local one. You'll be surprised what you have walked past and never noticed! Available by post, or to download.
Longleat Forest Centre Parcs
Warminster
Longleat Forest Centre Parcs - loads of activities to do with kids including a great indoor swimming centre and the kids love cycling around on their bikes - plus tons more activities - although technically Centre Parcs isn't open to day visitors only residential guests
Thanks for all the great places to go when visiting wiltshire you keep sending in. Now the christmas holidays are upon us, we're trying to find as many 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 soft playcentres, petting farms, wildlife parks and zoos, castles, railways, ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, ten pin bowling alleys and other attractions as possible.
Also teachers may find the site useful for ideas for places to take their classes on school journeys.
So, if you've been for great days out with the kids, or a school trip, which isn't listed above, just send in an email and we'll add it on so people on holidays and all the other children in wiltshire can enjoy the day out as well.
New for 2009, if you're looking for fun places for kids when visiting america on vacation, go to our new site familydaysoutusa.com
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