Browsing venues
Holland Haven, Holland-on-Sea, Essex, CO15 5TX
Situated on the coast between Clacton and Frinton-on-Sea, the County Park offers over 100 acres of unspoilt scenic coastline-ideal for bird watching.
- Rail station: Clacton (4 miles)
- Children welcome
- Free entry
Landbeach Road, Milton, Cambridgeshire, CB24 6DA
A field full of family fun at The Milton Maize Maze - a puzzle to challenge any age!
- Rail station: Waterbeach (2 miles)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
Carlton Road, Harrold, Bedfordshire, MK43 7DS
A 144-acre country park with 3 lakes and riverside. Posted walks in meadow, lakeside and by river. Visitors centre with tearoom and facilities. Nature reserve.
- Rail station: Bedford (10 miles)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Free entry
- Guided tour(s)
3 MIll Yard, Childerley, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, CB23 8BA
Famed for its collection of old roses and herbaceous borders, the gardens also offer a majestic lawn for receptions and a truly magical backdrop for photographs.
- Rail station: Cambridge (7 miles)
- Parking: free
The Royal National Rose Society, Chiswell Green Lane, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL2 3NR
Situated to the south of St. Albans are the world renowned Gardens of the Rose - and headquarters of the Royal National Rose Society.
- Rail station: Abbey Station (1 mile)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Guided tour(s)
Access via Akeman Street, Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23 5
The 300 acre park is now managed by the Woodland Trust, and provides wonderful open space for the walker and naturalist.
- Rail station: Tring
- Free entry
Marsh Lane, Gilden Way, Harlow, Essex, CM17 0NA
20th century garden, designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd on the side of a small valley - with terraces, wild garden, vistas, pools, streams and many sculptures.
- Rail station: Harlow Mill (2 miles)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
Six Hills Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 0BL
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.
- Rail station: Stevenage (1 mile)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
Maldon, Essex, CM9 5FW
The Friary Walled Garden is very small and normally open to the public for a short time once a month.
- Free entry
The Guildhall, Lode, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB25 9EW
15 minutes from Cambridge lies a beautiful Shangri-la stretching across 190 acres of lawn grass that holds summertime events and regular weekend camping and fabulous picnic areas promoting the countryside and health and fitness.
- Rail station: Cambridge (8 miles)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Guided tour(s)
Church Road, Stevington, Bedfordshire, MK43 7QB
A garden of four and a half acres, developed and entirely looked after by owners Simon and Kathy Brown over the last twenty years. It has over eighteen different areas of interest.
2 Meldreth Road, Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, SG8 6PS
Walled gardens round an 18thC redbrick house approached by 18thC wrought iron gates. There are barns, a 20thC folly and unusual plants.
- Rail station: Shepreth
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Guided tour(s)
Chalk Road, Walpole St Peter, Norfolk, PE14 7PH
Gallery, tearoom, water gardens, koi carp, black swans, ducks, peacocks and small garden centre.
- Rail station: King's Lynn
- Disabled access
- Guided tour(s)
Great Yeldham, Halstead, Essex, CO9 4JG
Spencers is a traditional English country estate built by Lady Anne Spencer, granddaughter of the first Duke of Marlborough, in the mid 18th century.
- Rail station: Braintree
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Disabled access
- Guided tour(s)
Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex, EN9 3GP
Open since 2004, Gunpowder Park has been reclaimed and regenerated from its former use as a Royal Ordnance munitions testing facility.
- Rail station: Waltham Cross (2 miles)
- Parking: free
- Children welcome
- Free entry
St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 7DA
Riverside Park in St Neots is close to the town centre and is bisected by the bridge over the Great Ouse River.
- Children welcome
- Disabled access

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