Dyrham Park
Museums & Science Centres · Dyrham, Gloucestershire
Also outdoor play & adventure playgrounds
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🏠 Indoor & outdoorGardens🛝 PlaygroundEducational🐐 AnimalsSeasonal openingToddler sessions
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Picnic area
Main car park, JustPark app or payment machines. National Trust members not charged. Non-members £4 per day or £2 for two hours. 12 designated blue badge spaces.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Dyrham Park is a National Trust property set in a large ancient deer park, with a baroque country house at its heart. Families can walk the rolling parkland, where a herd of fallow deer roams, and follow the paths down to the formal garden with its ponds, wildflower orchard and wooded terraces. The house has rooms furnished to show what life was like in the 1600s, and there is a play area with an adventure element in the parkland at Old Lodge, which also has a café and picnic tables. Seasonal trails and activities for children run in the school holidays, and there are pre-school sessions on some weekdays in spring and summer. Part of the site is steep and uneven, so buggies and wheelchairs may find some routes hard going, although the house ground floor and the garden are reached by level access. It suits a relaxed family outing that mixes history with open-air space to run about.
Play area at Old Lodge in the parkland open all year; cafe at Old Lodge open daily March to October and in school holidays, weekends only in term time November to February. Term-time pre-school sessions on Tuesdays March to October. Family trails in school holidays and seasonal Christmas trails.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Wristband for lost childrenWrite your number on it before you go in.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Insect repellent
- Colouring book and pencils
- I-spy book
- Extra jumper
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
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