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The town attlefie country houses to glamping, all listed on www.goleicestershire.com Snibston Colliery Park and Century Theatre Loughborough Loyalty App B We guarantee that you will always find for a town guide, deals, trails or enjoy one of our great short break offers at www.stayplayexplore.co.uk is also a great base for walking, cycling Snibston Colliery Park is a unique combination of one of the country’s best-preserved colliery sites. With something interesting to do in Hinckley! and events: and exploring the National Forest, a visit al Loveloughborough.co.uk tion For up to date offers and great deals, follow us on Facebook and Instagram much to see and do, Snibston Colliery Park offers a e Na Th rest or visit www.goleicestershire.com to nearby cycle centre Hicks Lodge makes great day out packed full of entertainment. Fo a great day out! 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One of the country’s oldest market towns, track before taking on the twists and turns of the At the heart of picturesque Market Bosworth is a #GDOGuide for further details: original spoil colliery heap on our blue grade mountain surrounded by idyllic English countryside. bike trail. cobbled square, surrounded by elegant buildings and www.ashbydelazouch.info or email us: home to small independent shops, pubs, restaurants and goleicestershire We are proud of our rich heritage, markets, our rs) [email protected] The Grange Nature Reserve, found at the southern cafes, and the monthly farmers' market. Conke edge of the park, offers a more tranquil experience with inseparable links with Cheese and the famous beautiful landscapes. It’s Victorian arboretum, A regular winner, Market Bosworth's Brought to you by: Melton Mowbray Pork Pies. wildflower meadow and two fishing lakes, once the colourful floral displays will delight as you explore this gardens of the Colliery Manager, now boast stunning Yet there is so much more to uncover. Like a good historic town and grounds of Grade 1 listed Bosworth wildlife and rich ecology. Hall Hotel. story? Well, did you hear the one about … The Colliery Café offers a selection of refreshments and acts as the perfect resting spot during a day out at You'll also find an exciting calendar of arts, film, drama and family fun. 34 Ferrers Centre for Arts and Crafts the park. Adjacent to the café is the uniquely brilliant Painting the Town Red, the invention of afternoon tea, Century Theatre – Britain’s oldest surviving travelling the inspiration for ‘Cluedo’ or ‘Kings of King Street’? Staunton Harold, Nr. Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire LE65 1RW theatre. This must-see arts venue plays an ever- The surrounding countryside and villages are full of © Leicestershire Promotions 2021 01332 864863 increasing role in the local community and surrounding hidden treasures, perfect for a gentle cycle ride. Walk 86 Wood Lane www.ferrerscentre.co.uk area. Hosting a range of performances, films and Whether you want to immerse yourself in along the canal towpath or hire a day boat from Quorn www.facebook.com/TheFerrersCentre comedians as well as educational activities, history intriguing stories, have an adventure-filled family Bosworth Marina. With galleries, antiques and artisan Leics LE12 8DB Leicestershire’s Best Shopping Destination in the 2019 Tourism tours, and youth and community groups, this charming day at Twinlakes Theme Park, enjoy the splendours crafts, the conservation village of is designed theatre, has lots to offer. Brought to you by: and Hospitality Awards. A unique shopping experience – artists’ of or a foodie experience at one of for ambling. This guide has been produced by tourism specialists - LPL Ltd. All information studios, workshops, gallery, tea room, deli and shops, all housed To find out more, visit: our renowned festivals, Melton really does have It's also the terminus for the fabulous Battlefield Line goleicestershire.com was correct at the time of going to press. We cannot accept liability for within a Georgian courtyard on the picturesque estate of www.leicscountryparks.org.uk/snibston-colliery-park/ inaccuracies and omissions in, or subsequent alternations to information Staunton Harold. Free entry. Great location for walks. something for everyone. Railway. @goleicestershire For the latest events at the Century Theatre visit: supplied. You are advised to check opening times, prices etc with establishments Most shops are open 11-5pm Tuesday to Sunday (11-4pm in the www.centurytheatre.co.uk With so much to discover, you’ll need several visits! @loveleics before your visit. Large print format is available – please contact winter months), but please check website for individual opening times. www.discovermelton.com [email protected] goleicestershire 7 Treetop Adventure Golf 18 Belvoir Castle Highcross, 3 Shires Lane, , LE1 4AN Visitor Attraction Quality Belvoir, Leicestershire NG32 1PE Tel: 0116 402 8333 01476 871001 FAMILY FUN TreetopGolf treetopgolfleicester treetop_golf LOCATION MAP Assurance Service [email protected] GREAT OUTDOORS www.belvoircastle.com Ready for a truly epic adventure? Enter a world where temples crumble, ancient spirits stir and mini golf reigns The home of the Duke & Duchess of Rutland, history Whether you want to monkey around, head to outer supreme. 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Located at Highcross, Leicester. For more experience. Look for the Marque and visit with confidence. into a handmaid going about her daily duties. At the foot entertained! information, visit www.adventuregolf.com. of the castle is the Engine Yard retail village.

1 Bosworth Water Park 8 19 Charnwood Museum 26 Field Sport UK Activity Centre Wellsborough Rd, Market Bosworth, CV13 6PD Queen's Park, Granby Street, Loughborough LE11 3DU T: 01283 763350 Mobile: 07973 115769 Tel: 01455 291876 T: 01509 233754 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] www.bosworthwaterpark.co.uk www.charnwoodmuseum.co.uk www.fieldsportuk.co.uk /charnwoodmuseum @charnwoodmuseum @Fieldsportukmidlands @FieldSportUK Bosworth Water Park really does have everything a family needs for a fun day out. From hiring canoes, pedalos and Award-winning museum exploring the history of Charnwood, Field Sport UK is a family-run, award-winning activity centre paddleboards where any family member can have fun, to the including archaeology, geology, wildlife, industry and based in north west Leicestershire. We have lots of activities on pirate ship play area entertaining the older children, leaving Ladybird Books. Regular programme of exhibitions, events offer and all suitable for the complete beginner. Try your the younger ones entertained bythe play area for 2-6 year olds while parents can enjoy a peaceful few hours relaxing. 18 and children’s activities, café and shop. Full access and hand at axe throwing, archery, tactical zombie shooting, clay Also, with man-made beaches, blue lagoons, crazy golf, facilities for disabled visitors, access dogs welcome. shooting, assault course, bushcraft, team building activities camping and an on-site café, Bosworth Water Park has Free entry, please visit website for opening hours. and much more. Pre-booking is essential. Open all year, fully family fun for everyone. Please mention Great Days Out when you visit us! accessible, free car park.

2 5 2 25 20 Great Central Railway 27 Greenwood Days Great Central Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 1RW www.greenwooddays.co.uk 27 T: 01509 632 323 /GreenwoodDays @greenwooddays 34 www.gcrailway.co.uk 8 Founded in 1998, Greenwood Days offers craft courses in 26 For a fantastic, year-round, fun packed family day out, visit the Great Central Railway, Britain’s only double track mainline an outdoor centre set in a beautiful 90-acre woodland in 19 23 31 20 13 heritage railway. Hop on and off at any of our 4 stations and The National Forest, bringing together some of the 39 2 1 38 discover the golden age of steam. For that special occasion, country’s leading craft practitioners to teach weekend, 2 25 30 33 1 why not enjoy one of our prestige dining services, loco driving midweek and week-long courses ranging from 25 1 15 14 25 experiences or corporate hire packages. traditional Windsor chair-making to contemporary 24 Day run around ticket: Adult £18, Child £9, Family (1 Adult 28 20 6 28 + up to 3 children) £30, Family (2 Adults + up to 3 children) willow sculpture, spoon carving to basketry. Courses are 36 28 £40. Prices exclude special events. suitable for all levels of experience. 25 20 16 25 9 Twycross Zoo 28 29 21 Harborough Museum 28 20 Just off jct 11, M42, Burton Road (A444), , CV9 3PX 9 Adam & Eve St, LE16 7LT Tel: 0844 474 1777 5 T: 0116 305 3627 E: [email protected] TwycrossZoo 7 4 www.harboroughmuseum.org.uk www.twycrosszoo.org 3 /HarboroughMuseum @leicsmuseums 1 22 Located in the heart of the Midlands, Twycross Zoo is the only 40 28 Harborough Museum celebrates the history and people of place in the UK to see all four types of great ape - chimpanzee, 17 32 the town, and its surrounding area. See the amazing Hallaton bonobo, gorilla and orangutan. Open 364 days per year, discover Treasure which includes 2,500 Iron Age coins and a unique the animal kingdom with over 500 animals of 120 species, Roman helmet. Step inside the reconstructed Falkner’s boot including some of the rarest on the planet! Don’t forget to and shoe making workshop. Enjoy the changing displays in a explore one of the UK’s largest tiger habitats, home to two 35 special exhibition space and the shared facilities with Market critically endangered Sumatran tigers, and remember to look Harborough Library. Free entry, please visit website for opening out for lots of exciting news and developments throughout 2021. 10 hours. Please mention Great Days Out when you visit us!

37 3 Leicester Festivals & Events 10 Wistow Maze 22 King Richard III Visitor Centre www.visitleicester.info Situated 5 miles south of Leicester, opposite Wistow Rural T: 0300 300 0900 Centre, signed from the A6 at Great Glen & Kibworth & A5199 E: [email protected] Leicester hosts a vibrant festivals and events programme at Kilby. 21 www.kriii.com from the colourful narrow boats at Riverside Festival to T: 07884 403 889 www.wistow.com the live music and comedy at City Festival, and let’s not The award-winning King Richard III Visitor Centre is in Leicester forget our fantastic Festival of Lights - Diwali. We bring A winner of Leicestershire's ‘Best Visitor Attraction’ city centre and was created around the car park where the King’s A giant 8-acre Maize Maze with a fun Quiz Trail hidden people together in a welcoming and safe environment, remains were buried for over 500 years. Using great storytelling, amongst 3 miles of pathways, with high-level bridges beautiful design and 21st century technology, the centre tells both virtually and at event spaces around the city. And and towers giving stunning panoramic views. the incredible story of the King’s life and death, and reveals as events are able to go ahead, we’ll always ensure your Includes Activity Funyard with mini-mazes and games one of the greatest archaeological detective stories ever told. safety. Follow Leicester Festivals on social media for all the family. New design & quiz trail for 2021. Adult (16+ Years) £9.25, Child (5-15 Years) £4.75 Family (2 and check out visitleicester.info for our 2021 events adults and 2 children) £23.00 Over 60s, Student £8.30. Once and activities. July - Sept. Check website for dates, times and prices. purchased, tickets are valid for a whole year to make return visits.

4 Leicester Museums and Galleries 11 23 Melton Carnegie Museum 29 Purple Badger Camping and Fishing Lakes www.leicestermuseums.org Thorpe End, Melton Mowbray LE13 1RB Croxton Road, Beeby, Leicestershire, LE7 3BH T: 0116 305 3860 E: [email protected] Tel. 07594 515948 Free entry to family-friendly museums packed full of www.meltonmuseum.org @purplebadger purple badger camping&fishing dinosaurs, fossils, the Attenborough Picasso collection, /meltonmuseum @leicsmuseums www.purplebadger.co.uk working beam engines, WWI & WWII, the history FOOD & DRINK HISTORY & HERITAGE of Leicester, the variety of life on earth, brand new A friendly community museum located in the heart of Melton We are part luxury glamping and part off grid camp site, Mowbray. The museum reflects local heritage, with displays with two fishing lakes sitting amongst woodland and Ancient Egypt galleries, world-renowned art and on archaeology, contemporary rural life, social history, fox wildlife. Two shepherds huts rest on the edge of our top diverse, temporary exhibitions. Take your tastebuds on a journey around Leicestershire Step back in time and delve into a fascinating history hunting, and pork pies. Featuring interactive lake ready for relaxation, fishing and star-gazing. You can For information on opening hours, admission exhibits, a varied programme of temporary exhibitions and also enjoy camping in our bottom field where you can and beyond. With Melton Mowbray pork pies, Stilton and heritage with visits to castles, battle grounds and children’s activities. Full accessibility for disabled visitors, cook on open fires next to your own tent or sleep in one details and directions, visit our website or cheese, real ale, home baked cakes and more, all foodies guide dogs welcome. Free entry, please visit website for of our resident bell tents which are available for you to telephone 0116 225 4900. stately homes. can fill their boots with tasty goodies. opening hours. hire, either furnished or unfurnished.

5 National Space Centre 12 The Melton Cheeseboard 16 24 Moira Furnace Museum and Country Park 30 The Outwoods Country Park www.spacecentre.co.uk 8 Windsor Street, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 1BU Furnace Lane, Moira DE12 6AT Located on Woodhouse Lane, Woodhouse Eaves, LE11 3YG T: 01664 562 257 01283 224667 [email protected] T: 01509 634565 The National Space Centre is an interactive science and www.meltoncheeseboard.co.uk www.moirafurnace.org E: [email protected] discovery centre, home to the UK’s largest planetarium, The Melton Cheeseboard is located in the heart of the traditional www.charnwood.gov.uk/outwoodsinformation where you can sit back and enjoy world award-winning Visit Moira Furnace Museum and Country Park and see market town of Melton Mowbray. Stilton is our speciality, and we are how minerals were turned into iron, learn about the people fulldome shows. Come and discover the past, present and unique in sourcing our cheeses directly from Dairy, A fun place for all of the family, the award-winning future of space exploration, with an out of this world based just outside Melton Mowbray and Cropwell Bishop Creamery, who called the furnace home until the 1970s and find out Outwoods is 110 acres of ancient woodland and is one of experience for the whole family. based just over the border into . why it was destined to fail, resulting it being one of the the oldest surviving woodland sites in Charnwood. It stands But it’s not all about Stilton! We offer the widest range of cheeses in best preserved blast furnaces in Europe. Outside, take a BOOKING IN ADVANCE ESSENTIAL the county with over 150 different varieties, many of which are stroll along the towpath of the restored section of the on some of the oldest rocks in Britain which are home to sourced locally. With a complimentary range of Continental classics to discover lime kilns or enjoy a relaxing rare fossils. There are quiet marked trails, toilet facilities, a UPGRADE TO A FREE ANNUAL PASS and an ever-growing selection of goat and ewes milk cheeses, cruise aboard The Joseph Wilkes barge. low-cost car park and a new natural play area. there’s always a treat in store for the cheese lover.

6 Stonehurst Farm 13 Ye Olde Shoppe, Dickinson & Morris 25 North West Leicestershire Museums 31 Bond Lane, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire LE12 7AA 8-10 Street, Melton Mowbray LE13 1NW There’s a great selection of museums to visit in T: 01509 413 216 T: 01664 562341 @stonehurstfarmpark www.stonehurstfarm.co.uk www.porkpie.co.uk the north west of the county including a 200 Open Tuesday to Sunday, open Bank Holiday Mondays and year old mill and a 13th century priory. Melton Mowbray’s oldest remaining pork pie bakery Mondays throughout summer holidays. 9.30 – 5pm, closed Christmas Day - 2nd January and shop. Discover the rich heritage linking Stilton Ashby de la Zouch Museum cheese, pork pies and hunting, and how they brought North Street, Ashby de la Zouch LE65 1HU A real working family farm, where you will receive fame to the town. Pork pie demonstrations a warm welcome from the Duffin family and the 01530 560090 (pre-booked) are available subject to current legislation, www.ashbymuseum.org.uk Stonehurst team. with of course, delicious samples. Meet and feed our cows and sheep, see the pigs and See website for opening hours: www.porkpie.co.uk Museum their farmyard friends. Hold baby animals, collect the 4 Apiary Gate, Castle Donington DE74 2JA eggs, enjoy a tractor and trailer ride, children’s pony [email protected] rides, play and learn, for all ages. 14 The White Horse 17 www.castledoningtonmuseum.org Stonehurst Motor Museum, a fascinating collection 2 Leicester Rd, Quorn, LE12 8ET of classic cars and motorbikes. www.whitehorsequorn.co.uk Grace Dieu Priory Off A512 park at Bulls Head Pub, Thringstone LE67 5UG Enjoy the excellent home cooked food and lunches The White Horse in Quorn is a family run pub and 01530 222 399 in The Farmer’s Den tearooms, where Emily bakes community hub that specialises in home cooked food, www.gracedieupriory.org.uk delicious fresh cakes and scones daily. real ales, cocktails & live music. We are proud to serve freshly cooked, good pub grub. Renowned for its live Sir John Moore Foundation Browse our farm shop, homegrown potatoes and music every Friday, The White Horse also prides itself on Top Street, DE12 7AH organic herbs and vegetables. Local and British cheeses, a menu that includes traditional pub food, stonebaked 01530 273629 deli, meat, pies, eggs, wine, beers and ciders. John’s pizzas, children’s meals & sandwiches with local www.sirjohnmoore.org.uk House artisan bakery for excellent bread and pastries. produce at the heart of the menu. Swannington Heritage Trust Hough Mill Gorse Field, Califat Mining Heritage Site GoLeicestershire.com is the number one website 15 32 Quorn Grange Hotel St. Georges Hill, Swannington LE67 8QU University of Leicester Botanic Garden for things to do in Leicestershire, with everything Wood Lane, Quorn, Loughborough, LE12 8DB 07779 275762 Glebe Road, , Leicester LE2 2LD (Public Entrance) you need to plan your visit including: T: 01509 412 167 T: 0116 271 2933 www.quorngrangehotel.co.uk www.swannington-heritage.co.uk www.le.ac.uk/botanicgarden • top attractions We are looking forward to welcoming our guests back Kegworth Heritage Centre A world of plants in one place: displays in 16-acre garden including • fabulous events and festivals to the hotel here at Quorn Grange. Our Afternoon Tea woodland, herbaceous borders, water garden, pond, glasshouses 01509 670137 with temperate/tropical plants, alpines and succulents. Award- • places to eat and drink is the perfect option for a get together with friends and www.kegworthmuseum.org.uk winning Fibonacci pavements. Special collections of hardy • great shopping family to catch up and spend some quality time Fuchsia, Aubrieta and Skimmia. Opening times: every day, • short break offers together. For those larger events you may be planning, Measham Museum all year (except Christmas - New Year) 10am to 4pm (5pm in BST). Greenhouses: Mon-Thu 10am-3.30pm • quality accommodation we would certainly love to host these for you, so why 01530 271724 not give us a call to discuss. (Fri & Sat 2.30pm). Entrance free (except on [email protected] special event days).