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Home / Tips & ideas / Seasonal / 8 great places to go for Halloween

8 great places to go for Halloween

October 27, 2014 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

Halloween pumpkins. Copyright Gretta Schifano

Halloween pumpkins. Copyright Gretta Schifano

My kids love Halloween at home and are very disappointed if we’re travelling and we miss it. Two years ago we were harvesting olives in Turkey during the October half-term holiday and my youngest felt very hard done by. They usually get together with friends and go trick-or-treating around the houses of other families we know in our small, rural village. It’s a good time for family days out because many places across the UK run special Halloween events for children. Here are some which look great.

National Trust

There are lots of things happening for Halloween at National Trust properties across the country. Events include creating spooky woodland art at Standen in East Sussex, a candlelit trail at Hatfield Forest in Essex and pumpkin parties at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire.

National Space Centre

The National Space Centre in Leicester has a special Halloween Planescarium show and Halloween crafts and magic to take part in.

Hever Castle

Kent’s Hever Castle has storytelling, craft workshops and a Halloween trail around its beautiful grounds.

Landguard Fort

Landguard Fort on the Suffolk Coast did a sterling job of defending England against a Dutch invasion in 1667. These days the Fort is open to visitors and this Halloween it will be transformed into the Little Fort of Horrors. Explore the tunnels if you dare!

Children at a Halloween event at Hughenden, Buckinghamshire. Image courtesy of National Trust

Children at a Halloween event at Hughenden, Buckinghamshire. Image courtesy of National Trust

Carisbrooke Castle

King Charles I was imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight after his defeat in the English Civil War. This Halloween you can explore the castle with Victorian ghost hunters to hear grisly tales from the past.

London Eye

There’s a Witch Academy on board the London Eye where children can take part in a Halloween storytelling experience with Priscilla the High Witch.

Chessington

Chessington World of Adventures is hosting a family-friendly Howl’o’ween event where you can go on rides in the dark and experience haunted adventures.

Thorpe Park

For older, fearless children and brave adults Thorpe Park is running Fright Nights on selected evenings in late October and early November. I definitely won’t be going along as it looks far too scary for me.

What are your plans for Halloween? Do your children go trick-or-treating or do you prefer to ignore the whole thing? Are you going to any Halloween events?

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Categories: Seasonal
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About Gretta Schifano

I'm a freelance journalist and blogger specialising in family travel with teenagers, trips when parents manage to travel without their kids, and 50+ travel. I also write about vegetarian travel, parenting teenagers, adoption, SEN, ADHD and anxiety. My work's been published by the Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, National Geographic Traveller, Lonely Planet and others. I've lived and worked in Italy and Spain and am now based in rural south-east England with my husband, adoptive and birth kids and our dog. I previously worked as a social action radio producer for the BBC.

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