Free, cheap or discounted things to do / days out, in Half term including Cinemas, Theme Parks, Museums & more

Few things in Leeds just off the top of my head

Thanks for the effort OP!!!!

Bradford

National Science and Media Museum is Free


scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/


Plus there's a pumpkin trail

planetradio.co.uk/pul…al/

Camping

[  ] Swallow farm Cheshire £25pn
[  ] Hatfield, Doncaster DN7 6EQ £27pn
[  ] Apple blossom, goole £22pn
[  ] Upwood holiday park bd22 9ss £27.50pn
[  ] Rudding park Harrogate


Blue Peter badge places
[  ] Eureka
[  ] Blackpool zoo and pleasure Beach
[  ] Jorvik Viking Centre
[  ] Jodrell Bank
[  ] Knowsley
[  ] Magna science museum
[  ] Quarry Bank mill styal
[  ] London zoo
[  ] World of glass

Repeat entry for 12m
[  ] Alnwick Castle ne
[  ] Burghley house lincs
[  ] Crich tramways village Derbyshire
[  ] The deep Hull
[  ] Ironbridge gorge Shropshire
[  ] National emergency services museum Sheffield
[  ] National space centre Leicester
[  ] Otterspool adventure liverpool
[  ] Stockeld park, wetherby
[  ] Stockholm park
[  ] JORVIK Viking Centre
19 Coppergate, York YO1 9WT
01904 615505 g.co/kgs…AvP (free 12m entry and blue Peter badge)

Near mums

[  ] Holkham Hall norfolk
[  ] Burghley house lincs (free 12m entry)
[  ] Fairy dell outdoor lido splash park
[  ] Woodside wildlife park LN3 5DQ
[  ] Museum of Lincolnshire life
[  ] Jump inc in lincoln
[  ] Anderby creek Beach for shells

[  ] Settle flower pot trail in august
[  ] Calypso cove waterpark barnsley
[  ] Wakefield rhubarb Festival. 3 days
[  ] Corpus museum in holland

Parks

[  ] Thompson Park Burnley
[  ] Stamford park
[  ] Pigot quarry waterfall, shaw
[  ] Anglezark reservoir, Bolton chorley
[  ] Heaton park
[  ] Surprise view off snake pass
[  ] Teggs nose country park
[  ] Haigh woodland park
[  ] Clifton country park
[  ] Moss bank park
[  ] Walton hall and gardens
[  ] Bramhall hall and park
[  ] Todmorden park
[  ] Hebden bridge park
[  ] Wepre park flintshire
[  ] Pesketh park farm near bolton abbey
[  ] Carrs (Wilmslow)
[  ] Fairy Glenn
[  ] Enchanted forest, stockeld park wetherby
[  ] Wepre Park
[  ] Reddish Vale Country Park
[  ] Heaton Park
[  ] Chorlton Water Park
[  ] Fletcher Moss
[  ] Brockholes
[  ] Wythenshawe Park (Simply Cycling sessions on specific days)
[  ] Burntwood Park
[  ] Longford Park (Simply Cycling sessions on specific days)
[  ] Debdale Park
[  ] Alexander Park (Simply Cycling sessions on specific days)
[  ] Doveston Reservoir
[  ] Hollingworth Lake
[  ] Sale Water Park
[  ] Tatton Park
[  ] Dunham Massey
[  ] Quarry Bank (walk in Styal Country Park)
[  ] Lyme Park
[  ] Delamere Forest
[  ] Macclesfield Forest
[  ] Walton Hall Gardens (has beautiful park with free animal park.)
[  ] Astley Park and Hall, Chorley (adventure playgrounds, duck pond, petting zoo, woods and streams, historic hall and art gallery, nice cafe. All free!)
[  ] Smithills Hall Museum
[  ] Stamford Park (has splash park)
[  ] Speke Hall
[  ] Wolds way lavender YO postcode
[  ] Hulme Garden Centre
[  ] Bents Garden Centre
[  ] Stockeld park Yorkshire
[  ] Monsal Dale, White Peak
[  ] Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire
[  ] Top Withens and Brontë waterfalls, Hebden Bridge
[  ] Dovedale, Peak District
[  ] Matlock Bath , Peak District
[  ] Forest of Bowland, Lancashire
[  ] Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak
[  ] Grin Low, Buxton
[  ] Wildboarclough, Macclesfield
[  ] Lud's Church, Leek
[  ] Hope Valley, Peak District

Places to eat

[  ] Space themed afternoon tea at ampersand Hotel london
[  ] Cafe aylanto
[  ] Trap kitchen m11
[  ] Fox inn bistro ripponden
[  ] The garden kitchen
[  ] Grandpa greens igloo
[  ] Ice cream farm
[  ] Waterfold farm
[  ] Lock keeper Radcliffe
[  ] Treehouse altrincham
[  ] Slatterys
[  ] Macello liverpool steak place
[  ] Etci mehmet
[  ] Kai Turkish place on deansgate
[  ] Mrs a's kitchen
[  ] Cafe Marhaba, 6 Back Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 1HP
[  ] Lilys ashton
[  ] Rice and 3 soap st mani
[  ] This and that, bolton
[  ] 3 monkeys preston
[  ] Pind bradford
[  ] Pearls bradford
[  ] Haven hatch oxford road
[  ] Burgerism mani
[v] Fat twins Oldham
[  ] Crazy pedros mani
[  ] Habesha etheopian food gay village
[  ] The sparrows mirabel st mani
[  ] Sugo pasta
[  ] The clove, Blackburn. Halal breakfast

Activities/Days out

[  ] Arcade club bury
[  ] Summit up rock climbing
[  ] Hull maritime museum
[  ] Piglets adventure farm york
[  ] Upside down house manchester
[  ] Waterways Museum Ellesmere port
[  ] New Brighton beach Cheshire
[  ] Techniques wrexham
[  ] Brimham Rocks yorkshire
[  ] Lancaster castle
[  ] Magna, Sheffield science museum
[  ] The flower bowl
[  ] The thing in bury with arcade games
[  ] Happy mount park morecambe, outdoor splash zone
[  ] Lotherton Hall Leeds penguin sanctuary
[  ] Heights of Abraham
[  ] Poole's Cavern Buxton
[  ] Pensthorpe national park fakenham norfolk
[  ] Knowsley Safari Park
[  ] Chester Zoo
[  ] Underwater street imagine that liverpool
[  ] Newby hall, ripon
[  ] Blue Planet Aquarium
[  ] Legoland/Sea Life Centre
[  ] Monkey Forest
[  ] Gulliver's World
[  ] Sky High Adventure
[  ] Treetop Trek in Heaton Park
[  ] Trafford Treetop Adventures
[  ] Dino Golf
[  ] East Lancs Railway
[  ] Jodrell Bank
[  ] Eureka!
[  ] Underwater Street
[  ] Imagine that Wavertree liverpool
[  ] Rhyl sun centre
[  ] Lyons lido prestatyn
[  ] Splash park morcambe happy mount park
[  ] Fountains abbey, york
[  ] Flip out
[  ] Rhyl sun centre waterpark
[  ] Bradford lido
[  ] Huddersfield splash park
[  ] Cockfields farm
[  ] Smith hills farm
[  ] Pepper pig world
[  ] Thomas land
[  ] Digger land
[  ] Zoo
[  ] Sealife etc
[  ] Julia donaldson zog world hulme
[  ] The deep at hull
[  ] Blackpool
[  ] Splash park at st annes
[  ] Mattel world liverpool
[  ] Enchanted wood thorpe perrow yorkshire
[  ] Bentley grange strawberry picking in huddersfield
[  ] Heatherton world of adventure tenby wales
[  ] Dinosaur world tenby Wales
[  ] Zog trail grizedale forest
[  ] Crocky trail
[  ] Forbidden corner dl8 4tq
[  ] Gaddings dam todmorden

Places of interest
[  ] Formby
[  ] Morcambe
[  ] Scarborough
[  ] St annes
[  ] Malham
[  ] Bolton abbey
[  ] Ingleton falls
[  ] Goyt valley
[  ] Gordale scar
[  ] Alderly edge merlin face on rocks
[  ] Cbeebies hotel
[  ] Forbidden corner leyburn yorkshire DL8
[  ] Chatsworth house in bakewell

*Museums:*
[  ] Manchester Museum
[  ] Salford Museum
[  ] The Police Museum
[  ] Bury Transport Museum
[  ] MOSI (Science Museum)
[  ] The People’s History Museum
[  ] Portland Basin
[  ] Stockport Hat Museum
[  ] The Football Museum
[  ] The Imperial War Museum
[  ] Ordsall Hall
[  ] Bolton Museum
[  ] Whitworth Art Gallery
[  ] The Lowry
[  ] Stockport Air RAID
[  ] Touchstones Rochdale
[  ] Gaskell House
[  ] Fire Station Museum Rochdale
[  ] Liverpool Museum
[  ] Beamish living Museum Regional Resource Centre, Beamish DH9 0RG near newcastle

*Farms:*
[  ] Smithills Farm
[  ] Reddish Vale Farm
[  ] Wythenshawe Farm (small but good walk after a play in the park)
[  ] Red House Farm
[  ] Cheshire Ice Cream Farm
[  ] Cockfields farm
[  ] Lancaster farm

*Muddy Adventure:*
[  ] Crocky Trail
[  ] Manley Mere
[  ] Forbidden Corner

Venture out further to the Lake District: boat trip on Lake Windermere, Beatrix Potter Museum in Hawkshead, Grizedale Forest, Bardsea Beach

*Fruit Picking:*
Kenyon Hall Farm
Poynton Fruit Farm
Balloon tree pyo near york

*Beaches:*
Formby
Southport
Lytham St Anne's (has splash park)
Blackpool
North Wales Beaches: Talacre Beach, Rhyl, Llandudno
Thurstaston beach near birkenhead
New Brighton beach Cheshire


For anyone looking for a day out this Summer :-)

*Northern Cheap Days With The Kids*

Alderley Edge Wizards Walk
Astley Park and Hall Chorley PR7 1XA
Avenham and Miller Park PR1 8JP
Barrowford Park Barrowford BB9 6EW
Beacon Country Park Upholland WN8 7RU
Beacon Fell Country Park Longridge PR3 2NL
Billy Bob’s Parlour, Skipton
Bob's Brew Weir BL6 7RR
Bold Venture Park Darwen BB3 2SN
Bolton Abbey
Bolton Steam Museum Bolton BL1 4HW
Bounce Below, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales
Bridestones Moor OL14 8SA
Brimham Rocks Harrogate HG3 4DW
Brock Bottoms Preston PR3 0PP
Brockhole Windermere LA23 1LJ
Brockholes nature reserve Preston PR5 0AG
Brungerley Park, Waddington Rd, Clitheroe BB7 2JE
Buckden Wood Bury BL8 4PG
Bullough Park BB5 0LW
Cadshaw Castle Rocks BB3 2TX
Calf Hey Reservoir
St. Catherine's Park PR5 5XF
Clitheroe Castle and Park Clitheroe BB7 1BA
Clowbridge Reservoir Burnley BB11 5PF
Coppice Peel Park Accrington
Coronation Rock Blackpool FY1 4RY
Corporation Park Blackburn BB2 6DE
Cuerden Valley Park PR5 6BY
Cutwood Park Rishton BB1 4ET
Darwen Tower Darwen BB3 1JX
Dunham Massey
East Lancs Steam Train
Edisford Bridge Clitheroe BB7 3LJ
Entwistle Reservoir Turton
Fairhaven lake Lytham FY8 1BD
Fairy Caves Oswaldtwistle
Fairy Glen woods Parbold WN8 7DN
Fishmoor Reservoir Guide
Football Museum Manchester M4 3BG
Formby Squirrel park Liverpool L37 1LJ
Forest of Bowland BB7 3AY
Gisburn Forest Gruffalo trail  BB7 4TS
Greenwood Family Park, Felinheli, Nort Wales
Haigh Hall Park Wigan WN2 1PE
Hameldon Hill BB11 5QP
Happy Mount Park Morecambe LA4 5AQ
Hardcastle Crags HX7 7AW
Hatch Brook Waterfall PR6 8QU
Haworth Park and Art Gallery BB5 2JS
Heald Wood BB12 0EB
Healey Dell Nature Reserve OL12 6BQ
Heaton Park Manchester M25 2SW
Hesketh Park Southport PR9 9JN
Hollingworth Lake Rochdale OL15 OAQ
Houghton Bottoms
Hurst Grange Park PR1 9XH
Ice cream Factory Cheshire CH3 9NE
Jackhouse Nature Reserve BB5 3RR
Jack keys Reservoir Darwen
Johnson's Reservoir BB3 3NN
Jumbles Country Park BL2 4JS
Kee and Lock Woods / Hapton Castle Valley BB11 5QU
Knowl Hill OL12 7TL
Liverpool Castle Rivington BL6 7RU
Longton Brickcroft Nature Reserve PR54 5YY
Lowerfold Park Great Harwood BB6 7NS
Lytham St Anne's FY8 1LY
Malham Cove Skipton, BD23 4DG
Manchester Science & Industry Museum
Marsden Park Nelson BB9 8BW
Merseyside Maritime Museum Liverpool L3 4AQ
Mesnes Park Wigan WN1 1TU
Moor Park Preston PR1 6AS
Moses Gate Country park Bolton BL4 3DN
Moss Bank Park Bolton
Mother Shipton’s Knaresborough, HG5 8DD
Museum of Science and Industry Manchester M3 4FP
Oakhill Park Accrington BB5 2BN
Old Holly Farm Garstang PR3 1AA
Oswaldtwistle Mills BB5 3DE
Park View Park Lytham FY8 4JE
Pendle Sculpture Trail Barley BB12 9LD
Pilot Herbert Noga crash site Darwen Moors BB3 2TZ
Queen's Park Bolton BL1 4BY
Queens Park Blackburn BB1 1QF
Queens Park Burnley BB10 3LB
Rhyddings Park Oswaldtwistle BB5 3AR
Ribble Valley Sculpture Trail Clitheroe BB7 4QD
Ribchester Park Ribchester PR3 3ZH
Ribchester Roman Bath House Ribchester PR3 3ZJ
Rivington Pike Rivington BL6 7RZ
Roddlesworth reservoir walk and Tockholes woods BB3 0AP
Rossendale Ski Slope
Sand dunes St Annes
Scott Park Burnley BB11 4JR
Singing Ringing Tree BB11 3QZ
Skipton Castle
Smithills Farm Bolton
Spring Wood Whalley BB7 9TD
Stanley Park Blackpool FY3 9HU
Stubbylee Park Bacup
Sunnyhurst woods Darwen BB3 0LA
Tentering Tower BL0 0NS
The Airport pub Manchester M22 5WH
The Atom - Panopticon Colne BB8 7EQ
The Forbidden Corner, Tupgill Park
Thompson Park Burnley BB11 3QW
Top Withens HX7 7AX
Townley Park Burnley BB11 3RQ
Turton and Entwistle Reservoir BL2 4JP
Victoria Park Vickys Witch Trail Nelson BB9 7AF
Walker Fold Woods BL1 7PT
Wayoh Reservoir Turton
Welly Bobs Farm
Wheelton Plantation PR6 8QU
Whitehall Park Darwen BB3 2LH
Whitaker Park (inc museum) Rawtenstall BB4 6RE
Wild boar Park Chipping PR3 2QT
Windmill and Lowther Gardens Lytham FY8 5QQ
Withy Park Bamber Bridge PR5 6YJ
Witton Park Blackburn BB2 2TP
Woodnook Vale Nature Reserve BB5 0PJ
Worden Park Leyland PR25 1DJ
Wycollar Hall Colne BB8 8SY
Yarrow Valley Park Chorley PR7 3QL

While I appreciate these posts - anything school holiday related needs to come out several weeks earlier. My boy went back to school today after 2 weeks off - many schools in Scotland have been off either last week or this week.

Same applies to summer holidays where Scottish schools tend to be off from late June to mid August rather than English (in particular) dates.

I've got a list of cheap and free things to do within an hour drive of Manchester ill add to this

Thanks @Dan_82 just the type of things I was looking for. shame can't vote hot.

Wow, some list! Thank you (edited)

Few things in WakefieldNational Coal Mining Museum

Myusernamehasgone23418/10/2021 11:59

Few things in Leeds just off the top of my headRoyal Armouries Museumhttps: …Few things in Leeds just off the top of my headRoyal Armouries Museumhttps://royalarmouries.org/venue/royal-armouries-museum/Leeds City Museum https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/leeds-city-museum/Leeds Art Galleryhttps://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/leeds-art-gallery/Read lessRead more

Myusernamehasgone23418/10/2021 12:06

Few things in WakefieldRoom on the Broom Adventure Trail at Anglers Country …Few things in WakefieldRoom on the Broom Adventure Trail at Anglers Country Parkhttps://www.wakefield.gov.uk/sport-health-and-leisure/parks-and-countryside/room-on-the-broomNational Coal Mining Museum https://www.ncm.org.uk/Hepworth Gallery Gardens & Gallery is free for locals https://hepworthwakefield.org/Read lessRead more

Thank you

Great thread, must have taken ages to compile. I'm actually surprised at a few of these things being free as I had assumed many had paid entry, such as The National Gallery. I think with the annoyance of travelling abroad due to covid the public are starting to appreciate the wealth of things to do domestically. It's always a good idea to check the local art galleries out as many of these are run on a donation basis, so you can choose to pay or not. Southampton City art gallery is free and pretty good for those in Hampshire.

Thanks for putting together!

Thanks Dan_82

@Dan_82 Thank you! (edited)

All Hull's museums are free entry:

hcandl.co.uk/mus…ies

There's a motor museum in Newburn, Newcastle upon Tyne that's worth a look, old classic cars if your kids are into that.

Freebies below:

Northumberlandia (or, the hills with the boobies as my kids call it)
thelandtrust.org.uk/space/northumberlandia/

Centre for life (not free, but fun)

Planky Mill woods (walks)

Plessey woods (walks)

(edited)

MrSwitch18/10/2021 19:50

There's a motor museum in Newburn, Newcastle upon Tyne that's worth a look, …There's a motor museum in Newburn, Newcastle upon Tyne that's worth a look, old classic cars if your kids are into that.Freebies below:Northumberlandia (or, the hills with the boobies as my kids call it)[Image] https://thelandtrust.org.uk/space/northumberlandia/Centre for lifePlanky Mill woods (walks) Plessey woods (walks) Read lessRead more

Thanks @MrSwitch will update tomorrow 💪

Dan_8218/10/2021 19:51

Thanks @MrSwitch will update tomorrow 💪

No probs

mbg7718/10/2021 20:00

https://www.thenma.org.uk/Free entry, though do ask for a donation for …https://www.thenma.org.uk/Free entry, though do ask for a donation for parking.Large cafe onsite plus a few small play areas for little ones. The wall of names atop the hill makes you think how thankful we should be.Read lessRead more

Thank you also 💪

Will update tomorrow

Thank you for the great post, where have you found Merlin passes at such a cheap rate? Cheers

MrSwitch18/10/2021 19:46

Good night out Wakefield, been drunk there on many, many occasion.

If your down again in shaky wakey again let me know and I'll buy you a pint.

One of best nights out I've had was out on the toon up your end many years ago.

We were on a boat at some point, I still felt rough two day later.

Myusernamehasgone23419/10/2021 09:38

If your down again in shaky wakey again let me know and I'll buy you a pint …If your down again in shaky wakey again let me know and I'll buy you a pint. One of best nights out I've had was out on the toon up your end many years ago. We were on a boat at some point, I still felt rough two day later.Read lessRead more

Yeah, it's a good night in the toon as well.

MrSwitch19/10/2021 09:41

Yeah, it's a good night in the toon as well.

It's something different, loved it.

Amazing post!
cojld the OP let me know how to get the Black Country living museum tickets for free please?

Does anyone have a spare meerkat movies code for tomorrow? 😁 Thanks in advance!

alg18/10/2021 13:10

While I appreciate these posts - anything school holiday related needs to c …While I appreciate these posts - anything school holiday related needs to come out several weeks earlier. My boy went back to school today after 2 weeks off - many schools in Scotland have been off either last week or this week.Same applies to summer holidays where Scottish schools tend to be off from late June to mid August rather than English (in particular) dates.Read lessRead more

It.swings in roundabouts because you will save particularly on overseas travels during England school hols and vice versa

Kravex18/10/2021 14:02

All Hull's museums are free …All Hull's museums are free entry:https://www.hcandl.co.uk/museums-and-galleriesRead lessRead more

Thank you

Added some offers re Cinema

jinkssick18/10/2021 14:05

It.swings in roundabouts because you will save particularly on overseas …It.swings in roundabouts because you will save particularly on overseas travels during England school hols and vice versaRead lessRead more

I think that the original post was about the timing of the post (I.e. in time for the English, but too late for the Scottish and some others, who are now back at school), not the cost of the breaks etc. Its about considering the whole of the UK and posting deals in time for everyone.

Myusernamehasgone23418/10/2021 12:06

Few things in WakefieldRoom on the Broom Adventure Trail at Anglers Country …Few things in WakefieldRoom on the Broom Adventure Trail at Anglers Country Parkhttps://www.wakefield.gov.uk/sport-health-and-leisure/parks-and-countryside/room-on-the-broomNational Coal Mining Museum https://www.ncm.org.uk/Hepworth Gallery Gardens & Gallery is free for locals https://hepworthwakefield.org/Read lessRead more

Good night out Wakefield, been drunk there on many, many occasion.

thenma.org.uk/
Free entry, though do ask for a donation for parking.
Large cafe onsite plus a few small play areas for little ones. The wall of names atop the hill makes you think how thankful we should be.

12m entry: Black Country Museum
Love this place
Birmingham/Dudley

beergut196918/10/2021 21:58

Thank you for the great post, where have you found Merlin passes at such a …Thank you for the great post, where have you found Merlin passes at such a cheap rate? CheersRead lessRead more

Most welcome Re Merlin Passes, you can check the offer(s) out here merlinannualpass.co.uk/buy…ip/

Edit - i noticed i had an older price in and updated, sorry about that! (edited)

Mstrinisoul18/10/2021 21:11

12m entry: Black Country Museum Love this placeBirmingham/Dudley

Thank you!

Etci is expensive

carly18128619/10/2021 22:08

Amazing post! cojld the OP let me know how to get the Black Country living …Amazing post! cojld the OP let me know how to get the Black Country living museum tickets for free please?Read lessRead more

Hi, sorry free for carers and under 2 iirc, I've updated

Wow, amazing info many thanks to all for the time and effort.

Shame that they weren't posted in time for the Scottish school holidays which were mostly over by the time of the post.

I’ve got one, will message you the code now