Please ensure you follow all covid-19 restrictions and remain in your local area this half term. For ideas to keep the kids busy at home take a look at our blog on Virtual Days Out and Entertaining The Kids At Home.
Don’t forget that it is Chinese New Year on Friday 12th of February, Valentine Day on Sunday 14th and Pancake day on Tuesday 16th! Check out our Pancake Day Ideas and share your family’s favourite pancake toppings with us on social media!
Open for the local community during lockdown. Explore the abbey, walk along the seven bridges and enjoy the water gardens.
All indoor spaces are currently closed. Pre-booking online is essential.
Fountains Ln, Fountains, Ripon HG4 3DY
Banish the boredom, ditch the devices, and take your daily exercise at Thorp Perrow Arboretum in Bedale.
The Mammal centre is currently closed, but the tea room is open for takeaway drinks.
Please follow local restriction guidelines and pre-book online.
Thorp Perrow Arboretum, Thorp Perrow, Bedale DL8 2PS
We don’t have a ticketĀ booking system at Brimham Rocks and parking is first-come-first-served. We have limited car parking spaces and weekends and school holidays can be quite busy. If there’s no available parking, unfortunately you’ll be turned away. Please don’t park on the road as it obstructs our local farmers access to their land and prevents emergency services reaching the site.
The car park is open from 8am to dusk, all week during the winter months and is pay-and-display.Ā The car park payment machinesĀ only take coins. There’sĀ a āpaybyphoneā app available to use which weĀ advise you to downloadĀ before your visit as we don’t haveĀ strongĀ internet reception on site.
GeocachingĀ is something exciting to do outdoors, in which you use the GPS on your mobile phoneĀ to hide and seek containers, called āgeocachesā or ācachesā, at specific locations marked by coordinates. Itās one big treasure hunt!Ā Great if you have a little pirate or adventurer, or if you have older children who want to do a bit of orienteering. Itās great for all ages. The Geocache containers have been hidden by other local families and usually contain a note pad and pencil so that you can log that you have found it. There are also usually little treasures (think Christmas Cracker toys) and you can if you choose, take something out to keep and replace it with a trinket yourself (we have not removed or replaced items during the coronavirus pandemic, but we have enjoyed logging that we found it).
You can find the coordinates of the geocaches and join in, by:
You can also create your own geocache and hide it (we have done this a few times and had great fun putting a container together and hiding it). We get an alert when someone finds and logās it.
You will need:
Once you have created your geocache:
See 8 tips for a great geocache hereĀ
See how to hide a geocache hereĀ
As the COVID-19 situation evolves please follow the mostĀ current guidance from the governmentĀ when choosing how to participate in activities such as geocaching.