Welly walk to Standen. Copyright Gretta Schifano
If you’d like to get your children outside experiencing the natural world then the National Trust has some great spaces to visit across the country and they’ve given me a one-day family pass for a Mums do travel reader to use. Here are a few of the hundreds of National Trust places you could visit on a family day out – you can take a picnic or eat at the Trust cafe when you get there.
Blickling Estate in Norfolk offers plenty of picnic spots in its beautiful parkland. Its Jacobean house was once home to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife. There’s a secret garden and you can hire bikes and segways to explore the grounds.
Croome in Worcestershire was Capability Brown’s first landscape garden and these days has lots on offer for families with children. There are some great picnic spots on rolling lawns and by lakes and follies and there’s even a natural play area where you can build dens.
Hare Hill is a lovely walled garden surrounded by woodland in Cheshire. There’s a giant wooden hare trail to follow through the trees or you can play giant Jenga or croquet in the garden.
Standen in West Sussex is a beautiful Arts and Crafts home on a peaceful hillside. The gardens are lovely to explore and you can build dens in the natural play area.
Standen, West Sussex. Copyright Gretta Schifano
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I absolutely adore Fountains Abbey
I love Chartwell
Blickling Estate sounds a great place for a day out and its not too far away
Gibside 🙂 x
Bodiam Castle looks awesome. The kids would love it and so would I.
We love Flatford Mill, it’s especially gorgeous on a summers day 🙂
Stourhead is lovely, would love to go again
Cilgerran castle
Brownsea Island!
Clumber Park. We are here now. It’s pouring with rain but it is a stunning place whatever the weather. Mile upon mile of walks and cycleways.
I love Tatton Park there is so much to see and do there x
not sure what national trust sites there are, but i love castles and so do my girls, so if somewhere like that was available id pick that.
Chatsworth House in Derbyshire
I love Mottisfont near us, they do wonderful children’s trails
I love Chatsworth House, sitting near the fountain in the sunshine with a picnic.. bliss x
I would love to take my family too Calke Abbey, I went with my parents and it was a lovely day out x
Knowle is beautiful, great big natural park land, beautiful house and loads of deer!
Hi Gretta, last year we really enjoyed Studland Beach, Dorset. I blogged about it on my website (Twoadultstwochildren.com):
Summertime at Studland Beach, covered with soft golden sand,
is a great place to relax and get tanned!
The kids built a den, a sand castle, and roamed free.
We had loads of fun canoeing and swimming in the glistening warm sea!
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It’s beautiful there. I remember taking my eldest on her first camping trip nearby when she was a toddler and we loved that beach too.
We love Hardwick Hall
Chirk castle is a must see
Greenway house and garden
Erddig
Batemans – the home of Rudyard Kipling 🙂
Snowshill Manor
Knole! Used to live so close to it, great house and great grounds for the kids to run around in!
Standen! Just near my mum and dad.
Duffryn gardens in south wales has the most wonderful ornate gardens
Scotney Castle is great to visit and always has things on to entertain the children too – have been a couple of times, but not recently, so would love to go back and revisit it as it is only 15 minutes from us.
West Green House Common
Tyntesfield is our favourite.
I love tyntesfield, glorious walks
I love Fountains Abbey but there are so many fab places to visit 🙂
Love visiting Fountains Abbey
Cragside looks fab. Super prize x
i would go to Souter Lighthouse as it is fascinating for the kids and great for picnics if weather is good.
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
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Ingleton fall 🙂
id love to go to Cragside
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There are so many National Trust places we take our 4 year old!
Attingham Park shropshire, wonderful deer park walk, with world war 2 route also included. Great educational benefits when visiting the house and learning about all the previous owners.. We also like Powys castle with stunning gardens and enchanting castle
Wallington Hall in Northumberland!! 😀
I love the Dolaucothi Gold mines.
I remember going to Corfe Castle when I was little I loved it and would love to take my kids back there one day x
Dunham Massey
Gibside 🙂
Hare Hill
There are so many places I would love to visit with my family, one being Belton House in Grantham 🙂
Brownsea Island is FAB! reminds me of childhood holidays and rocky ferries across the bay 😉
Dunham Massey
Rufford Old Hall
tredegar
Would love to go to Bickling Estate, Norfolk. Love Norfolk! x
brownsea island is lovely
Osterley 🙂
Belton House has a great Adventure Playground for the children. Lovely gardens and grounds. The children love the maze. The house is well worth a wander round too.
I grew up near Chartwell – lovely grounds 🙂
The kids love visiting Corfe Castlein Dorset. I would use the pass to visit Biddulph Grange Garden as we are holidaying near there and it would give us an extra day out.
A place called Gibside
I love Biddulph Grange gardens
Cogden Beach!
Love Glendurgan in Cornwall, just wished we lisved closer so we could go more often!
fountains abbey
We would like to visit Knole.
We love Charlcote park because of the deer 🙂
Erddig love the surroundings,building and activities for the kids there
Love Glendurgan in Cornwall, beautiful garden, maze, a giant leap swing from Victorian times and a beach at the bottom.
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We loved Hardwick Hall, the children especially loved the old hall and the victorian games in the gardens, but would also love to visit Belton House in Grantham 🙂
I’d love to visit Chartwell House
Belton House near Grantham
Attingham Park – the kids love it, they love seeing the deer’s
Always have a lovely day at Tattershell Castle Lincolnshire
Our family love visiting Hatfield Forest 🙂
Nostell Priory
We love Batemans in Sussex it’s just the right size, lovely house , pretty gardens, gorgeous tea rooms and gift shop and lots of activities for kids. My favourite was a storytelling event of one of Kipling’s books.
I used to enjoy Attingham Park, but couldn’t visit once they started charging. so this would enable me to visit with the grandchildren or maybe even find somewhere new to try.
Would like to go to Osterley House
We love Brodick Castle on the Isle of Arran! I have always fancied visiting North Yorkshire’s Mount Grace Priory!
Poulton Lacey
Lyveden New Bield some lovely walks there too.
My favourite place is Claremont, in Esher. Huge lake and places to explore. The kids love it there
Birmingham Back to Backs. Would love to see how the ancestors lived not so very long ago.
I love Plas Newydd on the Isle of Anglesey. This overlooks the Menai Straits, with some beautiful views and it’s possible to take a boat trip from there. The house is magnificent and has a very famous, interesting painting by Rex Whistler.
It sounds wonderful – I’ll add it to my ‘would love to visit’ list.
I remember going to Corfe castle as a kid so would like to take my daughter there 🙂
My favourite National Trust place to visit is Cragside.
Basildon Park
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Corfe Castle in Dorset.
I Love the one in Clandon surrey x
Blickling Estate is so close to me and I have never been. So would love to go there.
Nostell priory .x
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I would love to be able to visit the beautiful Gibside Hall as often as I like 🙂
Ashridge Estate
Osterley House – I haven’t been before so would love it visit
Oh I don’t know.
I would make full use of the pass and visit everywhere. 🙂
Polesdon Lacey, nr Leatherhead – not too far to travel and always something new to see or do
I would love to visit Shugborough hall, it looks fantastic.
I’d like to visit Bateman’s in East Sussex. It’s not that far from me and I’ve never been there.
Bickling Estate because of the Tudor connection
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I would like to visit Wimpole estate
Bidulph Grange, been there and its a lovely place with Chinese theme gardens
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New Forest Northern Commons looks nice
I would like to take the kids to Dolaucothi Gold mines
Dunham Massey
Osterley House is beautiful and not too far to travel to from London.
Would love to visit Standen as it’s so nearby.
i would like to go to nostell priory thankyou
We would go to Dunham park as I went there a lot as a child. So many great National Trust properties.
I love going to Brownsea Island
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Stackpole estate is lovely. Loved your post on volunteering holidays on the estate.
Thank you, that was a great trip.
We love Gibside