🏠 Indoor & outdoorEducational🆓 Free entry
What’s there
- Limited parking
Small car park at the Grotto end (three standard visitor spaces plus one blue badge space) and a Tower car park with one blue badge space and one EV charging space; parking is very limited, and the Park and Ride bus is recommended.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Beckford's Tower sits on Lansdown Hill just outside the centre of Bath and is one of the city's most distinctive landmarks. Built in the 1820s for the writer and collector William Beckford, it is a neoclassical folly with a museum on its first floor that tells the story of Beckford's life and collection. Families can explore the grotto tunnel and the grounds, and older children who are happy with stairs can climb the tower's many steps to the top for wide views over the city. Children under 18 go free when accompanied by an adult, so it works well as a half-day outing that combines history with a walk. The museum is best suited to school-age children and curious teenagers, and it runs a range of school and group activities. Visitors who cannot manage the stairs can still enjoy a step-free digital tour of the collection in the tower vault.
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.
- Lunch boxes
- Woolly hat
- Travel games
- Waterproof jacket
- Kids' headphones
- Plasters
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