Browsing local attractions within 8 miles of Pearce's Farmshop and Caf?

Port Vale, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG14 3AA, Tel: 01992 509596, Email, (8 miles, 13kms)

Contemporary gallery, art, clay and craft workshop, outreach programme. Gifts, refreshments, children's parties and studio space. Tues - Sat 10-4pm, Fri 10-5pm. Admission free.

North Barn, Fairclough Hall, Halls Green, Weston, Hertfordshire, SG4 7DP, Tel: 01462 790565, Email, (7 miles, 11kms)

Jewellery design studio with a goldsmithing workshop on view to the public and a range of handmade jewellery to browse.

2 Market Square, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 3UU, Tel: 01279 655831, (7 miles, 11kms)

Great Amwell, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12, Tel: 01727 858901, Email, (7 miles, 12kms)

Former gravel pits which have been restored to a diverse wetland nature reserve which is now internationally important to nature conservation on account of the numbers of wintering water birds which visit the reserve.

Cromer, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 7QA, Tel: 01279 843301, Email, (5 miles, 9kms)

A restored 17th century Post Mill, the only one of it's kind in Hertfordshire and the only windmill in the county still open to the public .

High Street, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, SG10 6BU, Tel: 01279 842509, Email, (4 miles, 7kms)

Plantsman's garden of four acres, featuring choice shrubs & perennials in a parkland setting. Plants available in adjacent nursery.

Church Farm, Ardeley, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 7AH, Tel: 01438 861447, Email, (4 miles, 7kms)

Church Farm offers one of the last great free attractions: enjoying our green and pleasant land, stocked with rare breeds.

Leighton Buzzard Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1, Tel: 01442 867842, (8 miles, 12kms)

Crazy golf, croquet, petanque, giant chess and draughts and a public bowls green. Turn up and play, or for bookings telephone 01442 236314 during opening hours.

South Road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 3JG, Tel: 01279 651746, Email, (8 miles, 12kms)

The Museum was established in 1938 in two listed Victorian Buildings, one of which is the birthplace of Cecil Rhodes, Victorian Empire Builder.

Unit 3 Birchanger Industrial Estate, Stansted Road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2TH, Tel: 01279 656646, Email, (8 miles, 12kms)

Children's indoor soft play centre with cafeteria and private party rooms. Open 7 days a week.

Westmill Farm, Westmill Road, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 0ES, Tel: 01920 466446, Email, (6 miles, 9kms)

A unique combination of gallery, ceramic/art supplies shop and studios, set in a remodelled leisure complex.

Benington Lordship, Benington, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 7BS, Tel: 01438 869668, Email, (5 miles, 8kms)

Historic garden on a spectacular site. Well planted with unusual and interesting plants. Outstanding herbaceous borders, rose garden, kitchen garden.

Six Hills Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 0BL, Tel: 01438 353241, Email, (8 miles, 12kms)

Fairlands Valley is a 140-acre public park set in the heart of Stevenage with children's play areas & a water park. FVP was recently voted one of the UK's leading free visitor attractions. There are no entry or parking charges.

Off Ware to Hertford (A119) road, Ware, Hertfordshire, Tel: 01727 858901, Email, (7 miles, 11kms)

One of the largest wetlands remaining in Hertfordshire - consituting of floodmeadows and chalk grassland bordered by a canal and river and incorporating large pools.

Hockerill, Stanstead Road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2DY, (8 miles, 12kms)

High Street, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, SG10 6BS, Tel: 01279 843301, Email, (5 miles, 8kms)

Set in a Grade II* Listed building. Houses Elizabethan wall paintings and the displays on blacksmithing, beekeeping. The Hadham's and the Page family who were blacksmiths for over 150 years.

High Street, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 9AL, Tel: 01920 460316, Email, (6 miles, 10kms)

Grade I Listed, the Priory stands in 7 acres of picturesque riverside grounds. Founded as a Franciscan Friary in 1338.

The Priory Lodge, 89 High Street, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 9AL, Tel: 01920 487848, Email, (6 miles, 10kms)

An independent museum featuring the Story of Ware, including the Roman town and malting industry. Also a World War II command bunker and changing exhibitions.