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What’s there
- Café on site
- Birthday parties
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Forge Mill is a museum dedicated to needle and fishing tackle making, with models and recreated scenes showing how needles were once manufactured. The site also holds the excavated ruins of Bordesley Abbey, a medieval Cistercian monastery, and a visitor centre housed in a reconstructed 16th-century barn that tells the abbey's history from the 12th century to its dissolution in 1538. The grounds include a play area, coffee bar, gift shop, and walking trail.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Picnic blanket
- Travel games
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
- Notebook
- Cool bag
- Folding stool
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