🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–58–1212–16☔ Rainy-day friendlyEducational🌲 WoodlandMemberships available
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Buggy friendly
Free on-site car park (small - fills quickly at peak times); free parking on the adjacent residential road; Ansteys Cove council car park is a 10-minute walk away.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Kents Cavern is one of Britain's best show caves and one of Europe's most important Stone Age sites, where the UK's oldest human fossil was found. Families can join a guided tour of the 400-million-year-old limestone cave labyrinth (tours run hourly and last just under an hour, including a moment of total darkness), explore the indoor interactive Stone Age Zone with archaeology digs and real artefacts, then head outdoors to the Woodland Trail for the Prehistoric Animal Hunt, Palaeo Trail and shelter building. On site there is the Firestone Kitchen cafe, a gift shop and free parking, and the caves stay at a constant 14 degrees all year round.
Open all year round; closed on certain days over Christmas. Seasonal events include the Age of the Dinosaurs exhibition (until 31 Oct 2026, included with admission) and Cave Cinema evenings.
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.
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
- Toddler reins
- Dummy and a spare
- Notebook
- Waterproof jacket
- Muslin cloths
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