🏠 Indoor & outdoor☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Baby changing
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Free on-site parking, including spaces for disabled visitors. Signposted from junction 6 of the M3.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Viables Craft Centre is a group of converted workshop-style buildings on the southern side of Basingstoke, home to a range of small independent shops, makers and food outlets. Families can browse the craft and gift units, look round a sweet shop, and stop for refreshments at the family-run tearoom. There is a studio where visitors can choose a ceramic piece and paint it, which suits a relaxed indoor activity on a wet afternoon. The centre is also home to a model engineering society whose miniature railway runs public days at certain times of the year, so it is worth checking dates before a visit. The site has level access and accessible toilets. It suits a slow, unhurried outing rather than a busy attraction, and works well alongside a walk or a trip into town.
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.- Wet bagFor whatever comes home soaked.
Lunch boxes- Sun cream for after
- Sting relief
- Sudocrem
- Children's paracetamol sachetsThe one thing a farm shop never sells.
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Photos: 維基小霸王, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Renée Kools, CC BY 4.0
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