Swindon

Swindon

Swindon is famous for its links to the Great Western Railway. At the Steam Museum and by riding the Swindon and Cricklade Steam Railway you can give your students a taste of both history and discover the technology and design aspects of this crucial part of the Industrial Revolution. The town also offers theatres, shopping centres and sporting activities such as climbing walls, roller skating, ice skating and leisure centres. Meanwhile down by the football ground there is the (in)famous magic roundabout, while the Museum of Computing makes for an interesting day out for students of science or computing.

The surrounding Wiltshire countryside is filled with ancient burial sites, stone circles such as the world famous Avebury and the famous white horse. In the Cotswolds are beautiful villages and country mansions, such as Dyrham Park and Buscot Park, while Studley Grange is home to a stunning Butterfly Farm and Animal Sanctuary, superb for students of nature and science.

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The Sanctuary, Avebury

Begun in about 3000 BC, the Sanctuary was originally a complex circular arrangement of timber posts, which were later replaced by stones. These components are now indicated by concrete slabs.

West Kennet Avenue, Avebury

An 'avenue', originally of around 100 pairs of prehistoric standing stones, raised to form a winding 1 1⁄2 mile ritual link between the pre-existing monuments of Avebury and The Sanctuary. Part of the Avebury World Heritage Site.

Space Play

A great soft play area for children aged up to 9years, available for the older ones is a fantastic LaserQuest area!

Space Play is ideal for ages up to a maximum of 9 years, by which point LaserQuest might be more appealing! Spaceplay offers a multilevel adventure playframe with ramps, tunnels, slides, balls, viewing porthole & a wobbler seesaw all set to a clean spaceage theme.

ATBShop Skate Warehouse

An indoor skate park with a garden and shop. There are different sessions running throughout the day so make sure you check before travelling. There is also a garden area with a ramp and slacklining rig out the back.

There are sessions for all ages and abilities. The park is ideal for anyone wanting to scoot, skateboard or use inline skates. 

Wadworth Brewery

Welcome to Wadworthshire

Located in the bustling market town of Devizes, Wiltshire, our Visitor Centre is open Monday to Saturday all year round for you to browse & enjoy. Boasting a free self-guided exhibition of brewing memorabilia, a unique collection of hand painted pub signs, and much more, there really is more to Wadworth than meets the eye.

The Ridge Climbing Wall

The Ridge provides over 120 different climbs up to 9m and spread across four very different walls, so it provides a variety of different climbing experiences.

The youth club here is solely for kids who have had some training or climbed with parents and want to give it a go alone (under supervision) so the age is less relevant than experience and skill. Not for beginners.

Roves Farm Visitor Centre

A full programme of events throughout the day including: Meet and Feed the Animals, Free Tractor and Trailer Rides, Children's Craft Sessions, Animal Racing, 2 Acre Willow Maze and Indoor and Outdoor Adventure Play Areas. Themed weeks during school holidays.A great family day out, come rain or shine.

Farmer Gows Activity Farm

Meet the Animals is held every day at 11 am and again at 2 pm, bottle and hand feeding of lambs and kids all year round, plus feeding the pigs and cattle, egg collecting, goat and ferret walking. A wonderful hands on experience and great fun.

Chisbury Chapel

Although used as a barn for the last three centuries, this fine medieval chapel was originally constructed by the lord of Chisbury Manor to assert his high social status. It allowed the household of the manor, as well as local people, to attend services and pay their taxes without having to travel to the parish church at Great Bedwyn.

Oasis Leisure Centre

Indoor Lagoon themed swimming pool with pirate ship play feature for under 8s, 3 giant water slide, wave machine, watercannon and hydroslide.

Under its distinctive dome, the Oasis leisure pool recreates a tropical environment for swimming and water play suited to the whole family.

Studley Grange - Butterfly World & Animal Paddock

Studley Grange is a great place for your students to learn about insects, animals and arts and crafts!

Butterfly World

Visit our Butterfly House in Wiltshire rain or shine.

You can walk among some of the most beautiful butterflies in the World, flying freely against a backdrop of tropical plants and skimming over fish filled ponds.

Faringdon Folly Tower and Woodland

Faringdon’s unique, iconic 100ft tower, the last major folly to be built in England, surrounded by woodland. Kids aged 11 and under get in free.

There are four acres of circular woodland to to enjoy, with some trees that are more than 400 years old!

Calstone and Cherhill Downs

Far-reaching views of rolling valleys and hills

Cherhill Down is well known for its White Horse and views of the Lansdowne Monument, which can be seen for miles around.

Walk to the top of the Down and be rewarded with great views. In the summer enjoy carpets of chalk grassland flowers and the sound of skylarks.

Great Chalfield Manor and Garden

Charming 15th-century manor house with Arts and Crafts garden

This beautiful medieval manor sits in peaceful countryside. Cross the upper moat, passing barns, gatehouse and delightful parish church to enjoy fine oriel windows and the soldiers, griffons and monkey adorning the rooftops.

Romantic gardens offer terraces, topiary houses, gazebo, lily pond, roses and views across the spring-fed fishpond.

Stanton Park

A local nature reserve and country park with a large lake and extensive woodland. A fairly wild sort place with natural features only, but a wonderful environment to explore, and free!

It is also the site of a Roman villa (although unfortunately there are no visible remains).

Dyrham Park

Spectacular late 17th-century mansion, garden and deer park

Explore 270 acres (110 hectares) of ancient parkland, where a historic herd of fallow deer roams freely and magnificent trees and breathtaking views abound.

Swindon and Cricklade Steam Railway

Kids love a day out on a steam train.

The Swindon & Cricklade Railway re-creates the kind of railway that today's children may only have been told about by their fathers and grandfathers.

Museum of Computing

The Museum of Computing is devoted to the history of computing and digital development.

It was the first physical museum of its kind in the UK dedicated to the history of computing.

Lydiard House and Park

At the heart of Lydiard Park is Lydiard House – a striking Grade I listed Palladian house that for 500 years was home to the St John family.  The ground floor state apartments of Lydiard House have been beautifully restored and are open to visitors all year round to view the ornate plasterwork and original family furnishings displayed alongside portraits and photographs of the St John family.

Farmer Gow's

All day adventures - play in the pedal tractor yard, giant bale climb, indoor play areas and adventure playground. 

Windmill Hill, Avebury

The classic Neolithic 'causewayed enclosure', with three concentric but intermittent ditches. Large quantities of animal bones found here indicate feasting, animal trading or rituals, or perhaps all three. Part of the Avebury World Heritage Site.

Silbury Hill

The largest man-made mound in Europe, mysterious Silbury Hill compares in height and volume to the roughly contemporary Egyptian pyramids. Probably completed in around 2400 BC, it apparently contains no burial. Though clearly important in itself, its purpose and significance remain unknown. There is no access to the hill itself.

Great Coxwell Barn

13th-century stone barn

Great Barn in Great Coxwell village is the sole surviving part of a thriving 13th-century grange that once provided vital income to Beaulieu Abbey.

Built from Cotswold rubble-stone walling, the barn is an impressive reminder of the skills of the Gothic carpenters and the wealth of the great monastic orders.

Uffington Castle - White Horse and Dragon Hill

The Ridgeway is the ancient route that stretched from Dorset to the Wash and still traverses the chalk ridges of the Berkshire Downs. Often described as Britain's oldest road, it is perhaps unsurprising to learn that the area is home to three of the South East's most important prehistoric sites: Uffington Castle, White Horse and Dragon Hill.

Buscot Park

Late 18th-century house, set in enchanting landscaped grounds

Family home of Lord Faringdon, who continues to care for the property as well as the family art collection, the Faringdon Collection, which is displayed in the house.

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