10 Things to do Good for Big Groups in Warwickshire That You Shouldn't Miss

August 10, 2021 Sheron Bogner

Discover the best top things to do in Warwickshire, United Kingdom including Quarry Park Disc Golf, The Attic Theatre, Guy's Cliffe, Middle England Farm Alpacas, The Children’s Play Village, Hall's Croft, Kenilworth Castle, Anne Hathaway's Cottage & Gardens, Holy Trinity Church, Lord Leycester Hospital.
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1. Quarry Park Disc Golf

Old Milverton Lane Blackdown, Leamington Spa CV32 6RW England +44 7780 727921 [email protected] http://www.quarrypark.co.uk/
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5.0 based on 167 reviews

Quarry Park Disc Golf

Disc Golf involves throwing specially designed flying discs (like Frisbees)into a metal basket. The long course has 18 holes of approx 90m. The short course has 16 holes of approx 50m. Trees and bushes have been strategically planted to add to the challenge. Beginners are welcome, you can have a great time even if your your score is not so great! If we don't have customers waiting then we will be happy to get out of the shop and give you some pointers on technique. Ground conditions vary across the course and according to season and weather. Trainers are generally fine for the short course in summer; walking boots or wellies are generally a good idea if playing the long course in winter. At present facilities are very basic - a field shelter, an eco-toilet, and a pro-shop in a shipping container.

Reviewed By laurene2501 - Cannock, United Kingdom

Amazing day out with my family and friends. The people who worked here were a great help and explaining how it worked. Will visit again for sure.

2. The Attic Theatre

Next to Cox's Yard, Bridgefoot, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6YY England +44 7952 819557 [email protected] http://www.theattictheatre.co.uk
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5.0 based on 649 reviews

The Attic Theatre

The Attic Theatre is the No.1 fringe theatre in Stratford upon Avon and home to award-winning 'Tread the Boards' Theatre Company. In 2016 we begin the year with Romeo & Juliet, the only Shakespearean play being performed in Stratford during the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. First established in 2009 by Tread the Boards, an award winning theatre Company. This unique, riverside theatre is located in the heart of Shakespeares' birth town. This unique space is housed in a Grade 2 listed 15th century building and seats just 89 people. This makes for a very personal and intimate theatrical experience.

Reviewed By RobinNicky - Benalmadena, Spain

My wife and I went to Stratford for an afternoon in the sunshine this afternoon and whilst having lunch at Cox's yard bar we passed the box office for the Attic Theatre. We decided to go and see the show, and it was a great decision. The acting was really good and the production was excellent from start to finish. It followed the traditional treasure Island storyline but with a good dose of humour gently added. There were jokes for the whole family. Other people took children of all ages and they seemed to be loving it as much as we did. I would thoroughly recommend to everyone who enjoys fringe theatre productions. We will look out for other productions from this great theatre company. Thank you to the whole team involved.

3. Guy's Cliffe

Warwick Nursery School Coventry Road, Warwick CV34 4LJ England +44 1926 530096 [email protected] http://www.guyscliffehousewarwick.co.uk
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5.0 based on 90 reviews

Guy's Cliffe

Warwickshire's Hidden Gem - Guy's Cliffe House for details and bookings for our public tours, please visit the Guy's Cliffe House website

Reviewed By jansQ8019IX

My daughter and I attended a Paranormal Eye event here last night. It was a wonderful evening full of surprises and paranormal activity!!!! The location was easy to find and was very atmospheric. Guys Cliffe is a wonderful old building. Full of nooks and crannies. It oozed charm and felt it had been lived by so many in its time. The curator, Andy, supported us throughout the evening. We could tell that he loved the place. We would love to go back in the summer to have a good look around the extensive grounds. The evening was a great success and we would thoroughly recommend anyone who is interested in the after life to go. It was a brilliant evening. Well done to Paranormal Eye for a fantastic evening.

4. Middle England Farm Alpacas

Redditch Road, Henley in Arden B95 5NY England +44 7500 872913 [email protected] http://www.middleenglandfarm.co.uk/
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5.0 based on 150 reviews

Middle England Farm Alpacas

Our 90 minutes Alpaca Experience starts with a talk where you're learn fascinating facts about these beautiful creatures. We then harness them up for a lovely stroll around the farm and beautiful surrounding fields, passing our llamas, sheep, emus, goats, chickens, pigs, horses and donkeys along the way. Finish your experience with a delicious drink and biscuit you can purchase from our snack hut. Several different walks to choose from including our 90 minute experience, 2 1/2 hour trek and private walks!

Reviewed By 39emmaa - Birmingham, United Kingdom

We can’t recommend Middle England Farm & the Alpaca Walking Experience highly enough! ???? The whole experience from start to finish was so enjoyable! All led by a wonderful host who was truly passionate about the animals & was so personable & knowledgeable! She really made the experience extra special & went above and beyond in ensuring the wellbeing of the animals & the visitors ???? We were first greeted by the Greyface Dartmoors who were like little puppies, they were so loving & absolutely adorable! ???? We then walked around the farm to meet all the other lovely animals - all are so well looked after & so loved! ???????????????? We were then introduced to our Llama Boys who we took on a lovely walk around the gorgeous farmland! The llamas were all so friendly & lovely - a true pleasure to be around! ???? 5???? - MUST VISIT! Will definitely be returning again soon! ????

5. The Children’s Play Village

Hampton Road Budbrooke, Warwick A4189 England +44 1926 830635 [email protected] http://www.childrensplayvillage.co.uk
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5.0 based on 100 reviews

The Children’s Play Village

The Children’s Play Village in Warwick makes for a play date to remember for children bursting with curiosity and an endless supply of playfulness and tonnes of imagination. With soft fantasy realism of a real village your child can jump right into character and lose themselves in a world of pretend play and exploration of many familiar shops and services found in real life. Our 12 role play have been designed with love to set your child's imagination on fire. The Play Village, the play props and costumes are all here to spark play every child’s spirit of adventure, their excitement at the freedom to explore and learn about their community and world, and experiment with what’s familiar and fantasy using their imaginations. We offer 3 play sessions a day for 2.5 hrs that can be pre-booked online via our website. We operate a strict capacity level to ensure families have the space to play and explore with online booking essential to avoid disappointment.

Reviewed By AMM1985 - Banbury, United Kingdom

We visited for the second time in February. The first time had been on our daughter’s third birthday last summer and we had chosen to come whilst our eldest child was at school as we thought he would be too old to enjoy himself. We realised during that visit that he wasn’t, so we finally made a return visit today with an 8 year old, 3 year old and 18 month old. They all had a fantastic time! We received such a warm welcome from the members of staff at the front desk, and were very kindly shown to a table in the cafe area. Our children then joined in with the welcome session and started playing! We all had a brilliant afternoon playing together. We love how clean and tidy the village is even though we arrived at 3.30pm, that numbers are limited, how much there is to do, and that we can spend so much time together in one place just playing without any other distractions. We could spend much longer than 2.5 hours here, it is such a nice environment. Also a big plus that a tidy-up song is played at the end and that the children are asked to help, and they all do! We will definitely be back again.

6. Hall's Croft

Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BG England +44 1789 338533 [email protected] http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/visit-the-houses/halls-croft.html
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4.5 based on 911 reviews

Hall's Croft

Explore the beautifully furnished Jacobean home of Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna and her husband, the physician John Hall. Wander into the tranquil walled garden and discover the fragrant medicinal herbs, as John Hall would have used in his remedies. Explore 'Method in the Madness', a new exhibition exploring medicine John Hall. Enjoy refreshment in the cafe.

Reviewed By 674lizk - Grange-over-Sands, United Kingdom

We went from the RSC along the river to the Holy Trinity church and then to Halls Croft...and there was hardly anyone there! (In August!). Lovely house to look round, some interesting medical history, as it’s Shakespeare’s daughters house (married to a physician). Has a really peaceful garden and great cafe. Friendly staff. Definitely do this one- you can walk down into the mayhem that is Henley St afterwards. Is part of the £22 ticket so well worth it.

7. Kenilworth Castle

Castle Green Off Castle Road, Kenilworth CV8 1NE England +44 1926 852078 [email protected] http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kenilworth-castle/?utm_source=Trip%20Advisor&utm_campaign=Local%20Listings&utm_medium=Trip%20Advisor%20Profiles&utm_content=kenilworth%20castle
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4.5 based on 1,987 reviews

Kenilworth Castle

Reviewed By 756hazelm

Had a fab day out here with family including 4 children aged between 2 and 17 years of age .Children enjoyed exploring the ruins .walking around gardens xx My little granddaughter aged 2 loved the birds and exploring the grounds.Booking on line was quick and easy we are members of English Heritage so well worth joining if anyone wants to do that .Picnic area was lovely social distancing was observed by everyone .Plenty of sanitiser stations around .toilets were cleaned regularly .One way system worked well.All in all a great day had by all .Thank you to all staff at Kennilworth Castle .

8. Anne Hathaway's Cottage & Gardens

Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HH England +44 1789 338532 [email protected] http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/visit-the-houses/anne-hathaways-cottage.html
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4.5 based on 3,200 reviews

Anne Hathaway's Cottage & Gardens

This fifteenth-century, charming thatched cottage was the childhood home of Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's sweet-heart and wife. Experienced guides share tales about the Hathaway family who lived here from the mid-1500s to the early 1900s. There are nine acres of gardens and grounds to explore including a woodland walk, the Shakespeare arboretum and a living willow cabin where you may listen to some of Shakespeare's sonnets.

Reviewed By F12MPpeters - Rome, Italy

Review covers a visit to Anne Hathaway’s family home at Shottery a couple of km outside the commercial centre of Stratford-upon-Avon. William Shakespeare – English poet, actor and playwright and generally considered the best-known writer in the English Language. And here we were briefly exploring the place where the Hathaway Family lived and where, it is reputed that William courted, impregnated and married Anne Hathaway – in that order; the first of three children – Susanna – was born to the couple six months later. William was just 18 at the time and his wife 26. Anne Hathaway’s cottage, in reality the farmhouse where she lived as child that has, since1892 (when it was acquired by the Shakespeare Birth Trust) evolved into today’s tourist icon - part of the Shakespeare Heritage Industry based upon Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare and his work are part of the background of English/Anglo school kids everywhere - those of us who read/learned/explored/acted their Henry V or Much Ado About Nothing or Midsummer Night’s Dream for their school-leaving certificates and/or amateur dramatics and/or because we liked the stories, enjoyed the plays, treasured the history or simply became captured by the language. Following through with an interest in the man and his times is an easy option and more particularly when the weather is fine for exploring glimpses of Tudor England in the 21st century. We had left London early that morning on a elegant train hauled by a period steam locomotive for a day of adventure in the Midlands. At Warwick we switched to coaches with which to follow in ‘William’s footprints’ – although not literally; like most rural people of 400 years ago he would have had to walk everywhere. We had comfortable wheels. It was our first time in the area and things had clearly changed from those original days. Anne Hathaway’s place is now a twelve-roomed farmhouse – so only a ‘cottage’ in the sense that it started small in the 15th century – the lowest/stepped down part of the existing structure. In fact, it was not originally a cottage at all, but an enclosed barn-like hall with an open hearth at centre (and, presumably, a hole in the roof). The original building was converted into a comfortable farmhouse in Shakespeare’s time with the addition of a second floor and a couple of chimney flues – wooden frame, lathe, plaster, fill/cladding and thatched roof. Voilà, here’s your image of a typical English country cottage – robust/efficient/low-cost design that was still being used countrywide through to the early 19th century. By the mid-1700s the structure had doubled in size with the addition of the larger/up slope part of the structure. And, later still, a short brick/wooden framed extension was added to the lower end of the original building. A couple of useful/descriptive wall boards on site provide an easy to follow timeline in pictures over the years. Stand at the highest point in the garden – where there’s an artistic woven seat overlooking the farmhouse, and you can sit and study the flow of the thatched roof over the upper windows; the snug and tidy condition of the entire building. Three chimneys, two of which are internal and centred on the roof line – imagine just how warm the building would have been in winter. Where would the livestock, stored feed and equipment, hand-tools, etc. have been kept? Where did the family store their bulk farm food? There may originally have been 36 ha of farmland, but the cottage today has 4 ha that include orchards, sculpture garden and an arboretum that contains all the trees mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays (so the guide says). We wandered the garden next to the cottage which had a veritable team of gardeners tending the decorative beds, plants and shrubs. This is where you wait your turn for the guided tour of the property – so lots of time in which to enjoy the ambience of the house within its immediate garden. Once inside you follow the guide and her stories through the narrow passageways, around the sharp corners and up (and down) the narrow staircases taking in the different rooms, making sure to clear those low and potentially hazardous roof beams and door lintels where required; people were small in stature in those days. There were beds in the upstairs rooms some with canopies and others without (and, again, small by comparison with today), books open next to the beds described the Hathaway Family’s debt and the early history of the ‘Shakespeare Courting Chair’. There is a robust well-serviced kitchen too on the ground floor with late 19th century images. What you see is what you get – this sanitized glimpse of a family home from the 15th century firmly, if briefly, linked to the life and times of William Shakespeare. And William Shakespeare? Following their marriage the couple went to live in Stratford town, but London eventually dominated his working life. Annual visits kept him in contact with his wife/children who remained in Stratford. He returned after retiring from the stage to spend the final years of his life where he had started … and died in 1616 aged 51. And Anne Hathaway’s cottage? The last of the Hathaway Family – tenants at the time - left the place just over 100 years ago in 1911. Many interesting stories then … of this the world’s most famous English writer … but, we had a train with an iconic English locomotive to catch for our return to London that evening. Peter Steele 27 May 2020

9. Holy Trinity Church

Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BG England +44 1789 266316 [email protected] http://www.stratford-upon-avon.org/
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4.5 based on 2,080 reviews

Holy Trinity Church

Located on the banks of River Avon, this is considered one of England's most-visited Parish Churches and the site where William Shakespeare was baptized in 1564 and buried in 1616. In addition to Shakespeare's grave the 800 year-old church has some notable stained glass windows and 26 carved misericords dating from the 1400s. The high altar is one of the very few pre-reformation stone altars still in use in England today. Also of note is the sanctuary knocker on the inner porch door dating from the 1200s - anyone touching this could claim sanctuary within for 37 days.

Reviewed By aitchphoto - Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

I need to state that I am a member of the Church fraternity but that helps in trying to help visitors in what to see. There is of course Shakespeare's grave, as are those of members of his family, but do not overlook, whilst in the Chancel; The head of Christ {fortunately overlooked during the reformation} now illuminated and viewed via a mirror, the old medieval font, Shakespeare's birth and death certificates, the old bible, the misericord seats, the stained glass windows, one of the rare altars, the bust of Shakespeare, the lovely Monument to Richard & Judith Coombe {cousins due to be married until her death} and many, many more and that does not even mention anything in the actual body of the Church - I'll leave that to you!.

10. Lord Leycester Hospital

60 High Street, Warwick CV34 4BH England +44 1926 491422 [email protected] http://www.lordleycester.com/
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4.5 based on 577 reviews

Lord Leycester Hospital

The Hospital is a historic group of medieval timber-framed buildings dating mainly from the late 14th Century. Of historic significance, they represent one of the finest examples in Britain of medieval courtyard architecture. Clustered around the Norman gateway into the town, the 12th century chapel sits above it. For nearly 200 years this site was home to Warwick’s medieval Guilds. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, under the patronage of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the buildings became a place of retirement for old warriors. These soldiers are known to this day as the Brethren and with the Master, still live within the walls of the building. They are a living legacy of 450 years. Each morning they meet and pray together the words their founder Robert Dudley set down. You can often see the Brethren in ceremonial uniform as they give tours through the buildings and gardens. ​These extraordinary medieval buildings are open to visitors and can also be hired for private events.

Reviewed By PatG338 - Warwick, United Kingdom

Well worth a visit, ancient and interesting, lots to learn about the people who live there and keep it running, unusual wedding venue too

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