🏠 Indoor & outdoorEducational☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Fort Perch Rock is a sandstone coastal defence battery built in the 1820s to guard the approaches to Liverpool, standing on rocks at the seafront in New Brighton. Today it is run as a museum and events venue. Its permanent displays cover maritime and aviation history, and guest exhibitions change through the year. Visitors can join a guided tour led by the museum curator, which takes in the fort's history and a replica of a Titanic radio room. Families with older children tend to enjoy exploring the thick walls and gun positions, and the fort is also home to World War Two themed escape rooms. A cafe called The Mess occupies the old officers' mess and serves refreshments. The beach and promenade outside make it easy to combine a visit with a walk along the Wirral shoreline.
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.
- Notebook
- Kitchen roll
- Sunglasses
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Painkillers for grown-ups
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
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