Places to take children in/around London – V4.0, April ‘16
Firstly, my thanks to so many people who provided details of some of the places below.
Version 4.0 has a few new entries since v.2 in Summer ‘15. More sites are (correctly!) clickable to take you to the web-site. I
have also added a 1-5 star rating if you have reported back that it’s good!
We have over 100 locations and we have tried to include prices for adult where applicable - kids are normally half price with
bulk discount. Those that are free are marked in red. These web sites often provide links to other local visiting places (that
may not be on this list) , www.offtolondon.com/museums.html http://www.kosheroutings.com. For the 100 ‘BEST WALKS’
see www.christophersomerville.co.uk/ For all free museums in London see www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/free-museumsand-art-galleries#london
If you can add to the list or have additional info (or want to help me maintain it!) please be in touch [email protected]
Thanks, Yitzchok (Katz)
Local – within 15 mins drive
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Hendon RAF Museum –free, NW9 NW9 5LL ****
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Clown Town, N12 0SH, www.clowntown.co.uk/
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Kenwood house, free, In Hamsptead Heath, www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kenwood/
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Alexander Park free - boating, Ice Rink, park, nice views. Note* Web site may have unsuitable pictures
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Topsy Turvey world – at Brent cross shopping centre
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Gladstone park, Dollis Hill, NW2 4PN;8450 8505
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Welsh harp; www.bb-environment.org/Brent%20Water/welshframe.htm ***
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Dollis Hill Church farm house, Hendon has 3 rooms that are as they were in Victorian times, a well and a tiny maze in
the garden. tel 8359 3942
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Golders Hill Park, free http://www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk/family-fun/golders_hill_park/3974 ***
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Broomfield Park; Palmers Green, N13 4RB;8886 8405;www.broomfieldhouse.org.uk/index.php/uk/53/the-park
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Brent Museum; NW10 2SF;8937 3600; http://www.brent.gov.uk/museum
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Fenton House, Hampstead, www.aboutbritain.com/FentonHouse.htm NW3 6SP, 7435 3471
Hendon Park (wave to the tube drivers on the bridge -they may hoot)
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Belmont Farm www.belmontfarm.co.uk/find_us.php nice children zoo; £2 for kids NW7 1QT 8959 3308
Highgate wood lN10 3JN, 8444 6129. http://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/place/149405-highgate-wood
Hollywood Bowls N12 0QZ http://www.greatnorthentertainment.co.uk/ (C tenpin bowling £9 for 4 kids).
Freightliners Farm, Sheringham Road, N7 8PF, 7609 0467, www.freightlinersfarm.org.uk/ContactUs.htm
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Lords cricket Ground & Museum, www.lords.org/, £12/adult but you can get 2-for-1. Good for cricket nutters!
Avenue House. (Stephens house) N3 3QE http://www.stephenshouseandgardens.com/ **
Elstree Airport free WD6 3AR, www.londonelstreeaerodrome.com/
River Lee www.leevalleypark.org.uk/ EN10 6LX – hire boats/barges http://www.leevalleyboats.co.uk/ **
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Local – within 40 mins drive
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www.woodberrywetlands.org.uk/ N16 5HQ free 020 8802 4573 (new May ’16)
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http://www.gofurthercycling.co.uk/ Epping forect syscling 01992 815132 CM16 5HW (new May 2016)
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Ruislip Lido, www.ruislip.co.uk/lido/lidoinfo.htm, HA4 7TY free entry, train extra 01895 622595
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Kidzania W12 7GA www.london.kidzania.com 0330 131 3333 not cheap! ***
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3 mqn made mountains for walking/cycling free www.londongardenstrust.org/index.htm?features/northala.htm
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Snakes and ladders, Syon park,TW8 8JF, www.snakes-and-ladders.co.uk 8847 0946
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Queens park Willesden -animals/ sand /good playing equip and pool; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Park,_London
Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey Essex, EN9 1JY, www.royalgunpowdermills.com/
GoApe/Segway, Black Park, Uxbridge SL3 6DS http://goape.co.uk/ - other similar places too
South/East
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Greenwich /Thames tunnel walk. DLR to Island Gardens. Optional the cruise boat back to Westminster ****
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Maritime museum www.nmm.ac.uk/, Greenwich, Cutty Sark and GMT museum nearby, city airport nearby
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Thames barrier and information centre, Woolwich, SE18 5NJ www.places-to-go.org.uk/Thames_Barrier.htm
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St Catherine’s dock (at Tower of London, northern Line) - deal on a return Thames boat cruise - c£17 for family)
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Tower of London £16/adult! SE1 2UP., 7403 3761,
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The monument, www.themonument.info/ 7626 7217
Tower Bridge www.towerbridge.org.uk Glass bottom walkways and engine rooms - £6/adult. 7403 3761 ***
Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent ME4 4TZ ; 01634 823807, www.chdt.org.uk
Museum of London Docklands E14 4AL 7814 5530 www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/VisitUs under 16 free!
Diggerland, Strood,Kent ME2 4DZ, 08700 344437 - not free, www.diggerland.com ****
Horniman Museum & Gardens,Free,Forest Hill,SE23 3PQ, 8699 1872, www.horniman.ac.uk/
London Fire Brigade Museum, £3/adult, SE1 0EG, www.london-fire.gov.uk/ click on our museum us on left
Chislehurst Caves,BR7 5NB,£5/adults kids under 5 free, 8467 3264 www.chislehurstcaves.co.uk
City and West End
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Transport museum, Covent Garden, www.ltmuseum.co.uk WC2E 7BB, 10/adults, 7379 6344
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Sir John Soane's Museum, London, WC2A 3BP www.soane.org 7405 2107 – Not suitable for Cohanim
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Bank of England museum(Bank/North Line closed Sun).7601 5545
www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/museum/index.htm
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Museum of Childhood,Bethnal Green, Free, www.vam.ac.uk/moc/ E2 9PA, 8980 2415
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Florence Nightingale Museum, SE1 7EW, 7620 0374,http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk £6/adult, cheap tickets
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Boat ride on Thames with Thames Clippers from Greenwich to Charing Cross or vice versa for a low price reductions for travel card and freedom pass holders. www.thamesclippers.com/
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New St Pancras Station and wave off the Euro star. Free On Sunday you can park a little walk away for nothing.
Northern Line. Special photo exhibition 8-26th September ‘08
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Hamleys goes down well with kids. Prewarn it's for looking at - not buying!
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National Army museum, Chelsea has a kidzone (free) best for < 7’s. 0207 730 0717
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The Changing of the Guards free daily at Horseguards Parade , 1.00am Mon-Sat, 10.00am Sun.
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Buckingham Palace, Horse guard’s museum – to see the state carriages. 0207 766 7300 to book a visit to the palace.
Bit expensive but 2 two adults/3 kids plus two under fives to Buckingham Palace for £40. Get your ticket stamped
before you leave, get unlimited return within a year. book online to save waiting
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Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ, Free, www.iwm.org.uk, 0207 416 5320, park nearby
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National gallery www.nationalgallery.org.uk 7747 2885
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London Aquarium , Westminster Br,SE1 7PB, www.londonaquarium.co.uk, Adults £13 – get discounts, 7967 8000
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Little Venice (free), Off peak parking nr Delamere Terrace. Towards Maida Vale/Regents park is quaint. Other way
to Paddington is a mega development - use footbridge to see it. Go around dusk- lights are on in the barges.
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The London Toy & Model Museum,not-free, W2 3EN, 020 7706 8000 – now closed?
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Sotheby’s Auctions - 0207 293 5000
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Old Bailey 0207 248 3277
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The monument . www.themonument.info
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Science museum, free, (some question if OK for Cohanim)
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Tour of the royal opera house, free during the day, even see some practice performances
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House of parliament, 7219 5353
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Tour of the royal mail, free (The given tel no - 0207 239 2362 - is unobtainable!)
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Tour of newspapers Guardian and Observer 0207 886 9898
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Barbican has free family shows 0207 638 8891
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Courthauld Gallery, the Strand, free on Mondays 10-2 pm. www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/
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Geffrye museum, E2 8BA http://www.woodsidefarm.co.uk 7739 9893, adults £2 kids free
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HMS Belfast - includes free audio guide
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Watching Narrow Boat cruising on Thames/Grand-Union-Canal, www.canaljunction.com/canal/grand_union.htm
South London
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The Hive Honey shop in Clapham SW7. See bees making honey - www.hivehoneyshop.co.uk.
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Tate modern – may not be suitable (and the Wobbly Bridge to get to it)
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Walk along south bank of Thames from Westminster, buskers on the way
North/West
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Knebworth House Park reasonable – slides/ mini train and other adventure play. 30 mins drive
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Stanborough Park, www.finesseleisure.co.uk/default.asp?step=2&id=4 AL8 6DQ, 01707 276276
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Grafham Waters, bike riding www.grafhamcycling.co.uk/
Rutland bikes riding, www.rutlandcycling.co.uk/
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Dunstable Downs/Ivinghoe Beacon,
Slip End Village/Woodside Wild Fowl Park, Luton, 01582 841044. http://www.woodsidefarm.co.uk
Stanborough Lakes,Welwyn Garden City,AL8 6DQ, 01707 276276
Woburn Safari Park www.woburnsafari.co.uk, Milton Keynes, MK17, 01525 290406, adults c £10 2nd visit/yr free
Paradise wildlife park/Broxbourne Zoo EN10 7QA www.pwpark.com/ 01992 470490
Stockwood Craft Museum, Free; Farley Hill Luton, LU1 4BH: 01582 738714 (c5mins from Luton airport)
Willow Farm M25/A1 drive c 30 mins, London Colney, St Albans, AL4 0PF
Aldenham Country Park is cheap (parking £5.00/day)
www.hertsdirect.org/envroads/environment/countryside/placestovisit/aldenhamcp/
Cassiobury Park in Watford -train/pools and other stuff car/train c 45 mins
Hadley Wood for nice walks, www.culture24.org.uk/history/time/roman/tra26809
Brookman’s park for 3-4 mile walks 25 mins drive. http://www.brookmans.com/walks/index.shtml
Farmyard Funworld Watford, free - animals 01923 233841, www.lincolnsfields.co.uk/farmyardfunworld.html
Working flour mill - Mill Green, AL9 5PD , Hatfield.Jct 4 off A1,
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Bletchey Park Milton Keynes, MK3 6EB – world war 2 and Churchill memorabilia. 01908 640404 £10 adults kids
under 12 free. www.bletchleypark.org.uk***
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Natural History Museum, Tring free HP23 6AP www.nhm.ac.uk/tring, ****
Buckingham Railway centre, Ayelsbury, HP22 4BY , 01296 655720 www.bucksrailcentre.org/ ***
Whipsnade Zoo, Dunstable, LU6 2LF, 01582 872 171, http://www.zsl.org/zsl-whipsnade-zoo/
Welwyn Roman Baths (15 mins ): AL6 9FG Jct 6 off A1, Not for Cohanim - skeleton on premises!!
Gulliver fun Milton Keynes MK15 0DT www.gulliversfun.co.uk/milton-keynes/default.aspx
South/West
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Kew Gardens (over ground train from Hampstead) - now has a tree top walk adults pay.
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Thorpe Park,Chertsey,KT16 8PN, 01932 577123 http://www.thorpepark.com
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Virginia Waters, GU25 4NU, www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/landscape/virginiawater/index.cfm
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Richmond Park, www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/richmond_park/
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Battersea park – amazing history facilities. Free www.batterseapark.org
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Legoland expensive c£20/per - nothing more,well worth it. Windsor Pk,SL4 4AY, 08703 905090, www.legoland.co.uk,
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Didcot Railway Centre, www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk,Didcot OX11 7NJ,01235 817200, £5-8 /person
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Oxford/Blenheim Palace, nr Oxford, 0870 060 2080, www.blenheimpalace.com/
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Runnymede is stunning (40 mins in car). Thru Runnymede Hotel up to the Thames. Runnymede is right next to a lock
and it is fascinating to see the boats going - take a picnic etc!
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Brooklands Car/plane museum; 4* Weybridge; KT13 0QN. 01932 857381 ext 221.
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Top of buses to Heathrow Airport and then look at planes. Best place to see planes is top of a car-park!
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Bekonscot Model Village & Railway 01494 672919. See note below
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Henley/Marlow - again for boats
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Hampton court, good maze 45 mins, £12/adult – cheaper deals. www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace 0844 482 7777.
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Savill Garden , Windsor Great Park, TW20 0UU www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/ 01753 847 518
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Rickmansworth Aquadrome,Frogmoor Lane,Rickmansworth,WD3 1NB . 100 acres of water, woodland and semilandscaped parkland with walks, , http://www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/
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Hell-Fire Caves on Church Lane, West Wycombe,HP14 3AH, 01494 533739. £5 for adults. A fascinating series of
deep underground caves over half a mile in length. www.hellfirecaves.co.uk/index.php?id=10
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Kent and sussex railway (2+hrs away) www.kesr.org.uk Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6HE, 01580 765155
Parks
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Holland park -sand /good toys
Regents Park free and Zoo
Gunnersbury Park free, www.hounslow.info/arts-culture/historic-houses-museums/gunnersbury-park-estate. Has a
Rothschild House to go into if it rains heavily.
General http://www.londontown.com/sightseeing/
Bus 88 goes round London, all interesting places, so take a day ticket, and enjoy.
Notes: Bekonscot exists as a not-for-profit company raising money for needy causes and charities. Profits are distributed
the Roland Callingham Foundation and the Church Army. [The Church Army is an Evangelistic Anglican society – see
www.churcharmy.org.uk/]