The Original Great Maze at

Blake House Craft Centre

Blake End

Near Braintree

Essex

CM77 6RA

Tel:  01376 344123

http://www.greatmaze.info/about.html

www.blakehousecraftcentre.co.uk

Experience the latest challenging  Original Great Maze.  A field of 10 acres of maize with a challenging maze cut into it.

Don’t worry about getting lost there is always a lost souls map and viewing platforms.

Open 5^th July – 7^th September 08

10am  Last entry 4.30pm

Audley End House & Gardens

Audley end

Saffron Walden

CB22 4JF

Tel: 01799 522399

One of the most magnificent stately homes in England

Mountfitchet Castle & Norman Village 1066

Stansted Mountfitchet,

Essex

Tel:  01279 813237

The castle opens in March from 10am – 5pm daily (including all weekends and bank holidays)

until November

House on the Hill Toy Museum

Stansted Mountfitchet,

Essex CM24 8SP

One of the largest and most important Toy Museums in the world with approximately 80,000 exhibits.  Open daily throughout the year from 10am – 4pm Except Dec 24^th, 25^th and 26^th.

Barleylands

Barleylands Farm

Barleylands Road

Billericay

Essex CM11 2UD

Tel:  01268 290229

www.barleylands.co.uk

The farm centre has farm animals and fun things to do including a miniature railway, craft village with its specialist 30 workshops,  restaurant, and tea room.

Hayes Hill Farm & Holyfield Hall Farm

Off Stubbins Hall Lane,

Crooked Mile

Waltham Abbey

Essex EN9  2EG

Tel:  01992 892781

www.leevalleypark.org.uk

Lee Valley Park Farms are open between March 1^st and October 31^st each year.

Weekdays and weekends 10am – 4.30pm  Last admission 4pm Bank hols 10am – 5.30pm – Last admission 5pm or dusk in winter.

Friendly farm animals, Adventure Playground, Pet Centre, Tudor Barn, Tearoom, Tractor Rides

Kentwell Hall & Gardens

Long Melford,

Suffolk

On selected weekends Kentwell has re-creations of the past.

Royal Gunpowder Mills

Beaulieu Drive

Waltham Abbey

Essex EN9  1JY.

Tel:  01992 707370

www.royalgunpowdermills.com

Science, Nature, and History in 175 acres of woodland.

Open at weekends and Bank Holiday Monday from April – October.  Also open Wednesdays during the School Summer Holidays.

Colne Valley Railway

Castle hedingham

Essex CO9 3DZ

Tel:  01787 461174

www.colnevalleyrailway.co.uk

Ride on a vintage steam train or come along to their Special Thomas The Tank Engine days 29/30^th September and 6/7^th October.