🏠 Indoor & outdoor🆓 Free entryEducational
What’s there
- Free parking
- Dogs welcome
Free parking in the Palace car park (postcode SO32 1SB, entrance off the B2177), which is locked outside opening hours. Pay-and-display town car parks and free-of-charge on-street parking on Station Road are nearby.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Bishop's Waltham Museum is a small, volunteer-run local museum housed in the old farmhouse that was once lodgings for guests of the Bishops of Winchester, in the grounds of the palace ruins. Inside, families can explore objects and archives covering the town and surrounding villages, from prehistoric tools to twentieth-century local items, with a new exhibition each year. The museum sits alongside the palace grounds, which are free to wander and suit children who enjoy ruins, fishponds and open space. It works with local schools and groups, so the displays suit older children and anyone curious about how an ordinary market town has changed. Entry is free, though donations are welcome. Visits are best planned around the weekend opening pattern, and the ground floor is the accessible part of the building. Well-trained dogs are welcome.
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.
- Toilet rollAssume the worst about the facilities and you'll never be wrong.
- Lip balm
- Travel games
- Hair bobbles
- Gloves
- AntihistamineStings and pollen, both far from a pharmacy.
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