South Angle Farm Park
This farm near Ely has Alpacas to Tarantulas, a pedal tractor play track, animal handling, places to lay and a shop and cafe. A nice place to see farm animals like lambs, goats and chickens.
Outside the city
Bourne Post Mill
One of the oldest surviving windmills in the country. The exterior can be visited any time during daylight, the inside on National Mills weekend (second Sunday in May). However do check the website to be sure. Bourn Post Mill is located off Caxton Road, Bourn CB23 2SU between the villages of Bourn and Caxton. Getting …
Audley End House
An insight into Victorian life. The house has elaborately decorated rooms, stables and an art collection. See the service wing with kitchen and laundries showing Victorian life below stairs. The house was originally adapted from a medieval Benedictine monastery. At one time the house and gardens were amongst the largest and most opulent in Jacobean …
Wimpole Home Farm, Estate and Gardens
This has rare breed animals and is a nice day out with the kids. See the pigs, goats, Shire horses, Shetland ponies, donkeys, rabbits, geese, cattle and sheep around the farm. You can also look around the Estate and Gardens which are impressive. Wimpole Hall has a rich history. It is a complex house with …
Linton Zoo
See exotic animals like tarantulas, giant tortoises, hornbills, toucans, parrots and snow leopard, Sumatran tigers and zebra. Getting there: Bus – 45 minutes. Bus X13 to Linton, walk 15 mins. Car – 23 minutes (10 miles)
Shepreth Wildlife Park
This animal park includes lemurs, meerkats, a tiger, a waterworld, nocturnal house, farm animals, wolvess and a bunny land. There are regular feeding sessions and a birds of prey display. There is also a cafe, playground with a pirate ship, and a bug city world. It is very handy to get to by train to …
Stansted Mountfitchet Castle
An open air museum experience, where you can travel back in time to see what life was like in Norman times. You can dress up, wander about the chickens, see the log fires and feed the tame Fallow deer. Please note that it is steep in places, and access to the Bailey is up a …
WildTracks Outdoor Activity Park
Sports and outdoor activity facility offering motocross, karting or quad bike tracks and archery. Most suitable for teenagers or older children (over 8 years).
Red Lodge Karting
Outdoor circuits of 1200m and 700m with karts for everyone from novices to experts, with tuition. Children from age 8 can start their karting adventure in one of the sturdy Cadet karts powered by a Honda GX160 engine. There are also kids parties for age 8 upwards. There is clay pigeon shooting, laser tag and …
Airplay Aviation
A great trip for teenagers with a head for heights. Airplay Aviation is a flexwing microlight training school. Trial Flights wind-in-the-face experience of a flexwing microlight being truly unique. Maximum weight is 110kgs, and min age is 14.
