England Family-Friendly Sightseeing, Attractions & Activities

recommended places to visit and things to do with children in England


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a living working experience of life as it was in the early 1800s and 1900s complete with shops, pubs and horse drawn carriages and trams

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experience an evocative and intimate insight into living in Back to Back housing from the1840s to the 19790s

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local graphite mining led to the growth of the pencil industry. The museum gives an in depth guide to pencils and pencil making down the centuries

The Workhouse

Southwell

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built in 1842 as the last resort for the destitute, the stories of the people who lived and worked here help tell the poignant history

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gain an insight into the Cornish penal life over the centuries. This includes evening ghost walks and a look into the cold, dank cells

Chiltern Open Air Museum

Chalfont St. Giles

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focusing on vernacular buildings – the past houses and workplaces of ordinary people that are gradually disappearing from the landscape

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dating back to the sixteenth century, a unique collection of historic artefacts relating to the ancient school and its pupils

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home to over 1000 gnomes and pixies, wildflowers, herbs, grasses and ferns with a family picnic area