Bowood House & Gardens - Calne
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Concealed within the hundred acres of pleasure gardens surrounding the house, is one of the most exciting and now famous adventure playground in the south west of England. Designed by the present Marquis, it was first opening in 1976 and is constructed using Bowood timber. Children of twelve and under can spend the whole day at Bowood developing their imagination whilst challenging themselves on a series of aerial walkways, a full size pirate galleon called the ‘Centaur’, designed by Cornish boat builder, Alastair Guy, complete with rigging and a crows nest, two trampolines and a flying fox. There are several very steep slides and flume tubes, a huge scramble net and perhaps the most famous and popular of all, the space dive, (known locally as the death slide). This wide vertical slide is a modern version of a Victorian design, which starts with a shocking 19 foot vertical drop. For those not quite so daring, the Adventure Playground also contains swing boats, spinning discs, a Wendy House, ball pool, see-saws, swings and a sand pit. Children are kept happy here for hours on end. It gives them a rare opportunity in today’s world to develop imaginative play and confidence – and all in the most beautiful surroundings. The children who first came here in the late 1970s and early 1980s are now returning with their children!
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