🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16Educational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Ample free car parking adjacent to the Waterworks, along Hazeley Road.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Twyford Waterworks is a preserved Edwardian clean water pumping station set on chalk downland on the edge of the South Downs. On its open days the historic engines are run for visitors, including a steam pumping engine and boiler, large diesel pumping engines and smaller pumps, with volunteers on hand to explain how the machinery worked. Families can follow a children's trail looking for clues about the site, walk a wildlife trail with a pond and hide, and watch the industrial narrow gauge railway being demonstrated. The lime kilns and water softening works sit on a higher level of the site. A tea room and barbecue are on site, and there are picnic tables around the grounds. Children under 16 go free. Access is only on advertised open days, so check the schedule before travelling.
Open days May to October only; tea room open on open days.
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.
Flask of tea- Blister plastersNew shoes and a long walk are a bad pairing.
Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.- Picnic blanket
Woolly hat
Snack pot
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Photos: 維基小霸王, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Renée Kools, CC BY 4.0 · W.carter, CC BY-SA 4.0 · hazelnicholson, CC BY 2.0 · Nema Evin, CC BY-SA 4.0
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