Lake District days out for young kids

CrustyMcMuffin

Hello

Me, Mrs McMuffin and the two mini mcmuffins are heading to the Lake District for a week on Saturday. I was hoping some of you could recommend activities for two young kids, well one kid really as the youngest is 6 months and wont care less what we do! The eldest is 2 1/2 so we're looking for fun stuff for him to do. I'm not sure what the weather is going to be like so indoor as well as outdoors activities would be good.

Thanks

altyfc

Hi Crusty...

I live on the edge of the Lake District and have 2 1/2 year old and a 9 month old.

A few ideas:

Kendal: Fun Factory (an indoor soft play centre)

Grange-over-Sands: a walk along Grange Prom (pushchair friendly). Also a visit to the duck pond.

Lakeside: Lakeside Aquatarium

Sizergh: Low Sizergh Barn (you can see cows being milked there in the afternoon)

Near Hawkshead: a walk around Tarn Hows (pushchair friendly)

Swimming (lots of places where you can do that)

Flookburgh: Ducky's Park Farm

Near Sedgwick: Lakeland Maize Maze (relatively pushchair/pram friendly)

Windermere: World of Beatrix Potter Attraction

Cockermouth: Cumberland Toy & Model Museum (not sure if this is still open, though)

Haverthwaite: Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway

Ravenglass: Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway

There's probably LOADS of other ideas, but those are the first few that spring to mind...

Hope this helps,

Aaron

altyfc

Oh, and of course... there's the Wild Animal Park at Dalton-in-Furness.

Aaron

CrustyMcMuffin

Superb, thanks very much for the info lots to do it would seem. I know it's immature but I couldn't help having a chuckle when I read there is a place called Cockermouth.

altyfc

If you think that's bad, there's a Breasty Haw near here.

Aaron

gingerdad

Ice cream farm, near grange.

agree with duckys, very good other toughts are

fell foot park, near newby bridge
brockhole, near ambleside very good playground for the older one
grizedale forest, again excellent playground and lots of fun walks with things to do.

fun factory in kendal is okay, but if your going to duckys the indoor bit is far better.

other things a bit further away are

station house pottery near kirkby lonsdale
docker park farm near carnforth
lakeland wildlife oasis near milnthorpe.

if the water is nice happy mount park in morecambe is excellent a superb new spalash area and lots of other cheap things to do.

did i mention the ice cream farm near grange.

in the grange area you also have cartmel park which is hugh and lots of running about to do. lakeland miniture village.

Muncaster Castle is a very good day out, as is the sellafield visitors centre

other indoor play areas which are near by are

customs house in barrow
settle play barn, settle.

thats a few to keep you going

GD

gingerdad

CrustyMcMuffin wrote:

Superb, thanks very much for the info lots to do it would seem. I know it's immature but I couldn't help having a chuckle when I read there is a place called Cockermouth.

ice cream farm at cockermouth is also very good and lakeland heavy horse centre just up the road.

and you've got trotters near keswick

Regards

GD

did i mention the ice cream farms at grange and cockermouth

Murphy_The_Cat

just in case gingerdad didn't mention it

the icecream farm at Grange is very good (go on a dry day and the young'uns can play outside).


MTC

Princessa_2

ice cream farm at cockermouth? I don't know about that! Am I missing out! The name cockermouth is great, I love it. Obviously it's just the name of the town at the mouth of the river cocker, lol.

Trotters World is really good, we took the girls when they were 6 months and I thought they may be a bit young for it but they loved it, your 2 year old would too. There's the world of beatrix potter at windermere but never been there. Keswick is a nice place and they have the car museum which has chitty bang bang in and other cars.

Further out from the lake district and only happens every 2 years but Whitehaven is nice when the maritime festival is on. Was saying in the paper that it hasn't got the funding for it this time as it's a shame as it's nice when all the big boats come in and I wanted to take the girls.

gingerdad

Yes the whiskey and marmalade flavour is the best, it is called Wellington Jerseys Ice Cream, as you get near to Cockermouth you will see the sheep and wool centre on your left if you carry straight on over the island the ice cream farm is up a track on the left (in the entrance to the industrial estate), http://www.wellingtonjerseys.co.uk/

Regards

GD

gingerdad

Murphy_The_Cat wrote:

just in case gingerdad didn't mention it

the icecream farm at Grange is very good (go on a dry day and the young'uns can play outside).


MTC

And sitll only 50p for a kid size ice cream........