Braintree and Bocking Public Gardens
Outdoor Play & Adventure Playgrounds · Braintree, Essex
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🌳 Outdoor🛝 Playground🆓 Free entryGardens
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
- Picnic area
Venue's own site says there is parking near the Gardens; on-street time limits not confirmed on the venue's site.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Braintree and Bocking Public Gardens is a five-acre green space donated to the town in 1888 and now run by a charity. Families come for the children's play area, the wide grass lawn for picnics and running about, and the paths through more than two hundred labelled trees. A pond with water lilies and a purpose-built wildlife hide, set up for watching birds and other wildlife, give younger visitors something to look at quietly. There is a coffee house just inside the main entrance and two tennis courts for hire. Events through the year, including brass band concerts, family fun days and a Santa's grotto in winter, bring extra reasons to visit. Dogs are not admitted except assistance dogs, and the gardens close at dusk each day.
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.
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Head torchHands free for the walk back in the dark.
- Changing robe
- Umbrella
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Ordnance Survey map
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