🌳 Outdoor🌲 Woodland🆓 Free entry
What’s there
- Free parking
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Free car park at the site with a 2m height restriction barrier; no designated accessible parking spaces, and it is not suitable for vans or minibuses.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Castle Neroche is a managed forest in the Blackdown Hills, run by Forestry England, where families can walk woodland tracks up to earthworks left by an Iron Age hillfort and a later Norman motte and bailey castle. There is no castle standing today, so the appeal is the wooded hilltop, the views across the Vale of Taunton and the chance to explore the ramparts. Trails are not waymarked and some ascents are steep, so the paths close to the car park suit younger children and buggies less well on rough ground. The car park has picnic spots among the trees, and dogs are welcome on the trails. It suits a relaxed family walk, a picnic or an outdoor nature and history outing rather than a fixed attraction with set activities.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Rucksack
- Bug pot
- Cool bag
- Sunglasses
- Hand sanitiser
- Insect repellent
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