East Sussex Outdoor Pursuits & Nature

Knockhatch Adventure Park - Hailsham
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Knockhatch Adventure Park - Hailsham
There's just so much to see and do here at Knockhatch Adventure Park there is something for everyone.With an animal farm and falconry enclosure to enjoy the beasts and birds! Set in 80 acres of countryside, the Park offers a wide variety of fun indoor and outdoor activities, from crazy golf, to indoor soft play, quadapillar barrel...
Michelham Priory and Gardens - Hailsham
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Michelham Priory and Gardens - Hailsham
Michelham Priory is a very beautiful historic property nestling deep in the Sussex countryside and offers much to interest visitors – history, exhibits, superbly kept gardens, art exhibitions, wildlife, working watermill.  There is a well-stocked Gift Shop and a self-service restaurant serving teas, coffees, cold drinks,...
Herstmonceux Castle Gardens
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Herstmonceux Castle Gardens
Herstmonceux Castle Gardens and Grounds is a 300 acre estate including woodland, formal themed gardens and of course a 15th century moated castle. Made from red brick Herstmonceux Castle is one of the earliest examples of a brick built building in England. As well as operating throughout spring and summer as a popular tourist attraction,...
Woodland Adventures
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Woodland Adventures
Your mission is to send your team into enemy territory and, whilst under heavy fire, retrieve both of the fuel pods and return them to your safe zone. The enemy have a heavily defended base overlooking your objective. You will need a plan of attack and retreat to complete your task in a set time limit – tough when you have limited health and...
Wilderness Wood - Hadlow Down
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Wilderness Wood - Hadlow Down
Enjoy a crisp autumn walk in the wood and a hearty brunch, lunch or tea in the Barn cafe. Stock up on firewood for the cold months ahead and book a place on our popular fungus courses. Wilderness Wood is open every day, from 10 am until 5.30pm or dusk if dusk is earlier.   During December ...
Pevensey Castle
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Pevensey Castle
Pevensey Castle is a great family day out in East Sussex, encompassing rich history and fun things to do and see for adults and children. With a history stretching back over 16 centuries, Pevensey Castle chronicles more graphically than any other fortress the story of Britain's south coast defences. Beginning in the 4th century as one of the last...
Shinewater Park - Eastbourne
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Shinewater Park - Eastbourne
Shinewater Park is Eastbourne's newest park and combines purpose built recreation facilities within a country park atmosphere. Access to the park is free and year-round. Landscaping work was completed as part of the construction of the Golden Jubilee Way. What you will find Recreation facilities...
Evolution Indoor Climbing - Tunbridge Wells
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Evolution Indoor Climbing - Tunbridge Wells
Here at Evolution were really passionate about climbing. Whether you a beginner just starting out, or a advanced veteran there will be something to challenge you here at our state of the art centre. We have a huge dedicated bouldering area, a separate top-rope climbing area with new lead wall and a superb woody training...
Blackberry Farm - Lewes
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Blackberry Farm - Lewes
Blackberry Farm is set within 18 acres of beautiful Sussex countryside in the village of Whitesmith.  Our family run farm is home to over 200 animals and wildfowl. We have carefully chosen our comprehensive collection of animals for their variety, character and good nature. They are all extremely friendly, most can be petted or...
Eastbourne Miniature Steam Railway
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Eastbourne Miniature Steam Railway
A Railway Adventure in Eastbourne. Travel behind the famous one-eighth scale miniature locomotives as they meander for nearly a mile around the beautiful country park. Enjoy a pleasant stroll around the five-acre lake where nature and wildlife may be seen in their natural...
Egerton Park
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Egerton Park
Egerton Park is located within a few minutes’ walk of Bexhill’s seafront and town centre. It offers something for everyone from leisurely walks around the lakes to more energetic experiences including tennis and basketball. Families can enjoy a fun-filled time in the fantastic new play-zone which appeals to children of all ages...
Princes Park - Eastbourne
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Princes Park - Eastbourne
The central feature of the park is a large artificial lake where model yachts and powerboats are often raced by two local clubs and many swans congregate.  Nearby, Spray Watersports teach sailing skills to all ages. Lakeside terraced paths are provided with seating and there are lawns and a large scented rose garden for picnicking...
Eastbourne Beach
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Eastbourne Beach
The beach is popular with visitors and residents alike. It is a shingle beach with sandy stretches at mid to low tide. Local features include the pier, bandstand, promenade and famed Floral Carpet Gardens which all form part of its resort heritage.
SportyCamps
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SportyCamps
SportyCamps provides quality holiday sports camp experiences for 6 to 14 yr olds. We provide a safe environment in which all participants can have fun. SportyCamps has a well organised and structured camp program designed by experts. Every participant receives a Gift Pack - which includes a selection of items relevant to the camp activities ...
Broad Oak Park - Beshill On Sea
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Broad Oak Park - Beshill On Sea
Broad Oak Park is ideal for leisurely walks with a countryside feel. Linking to Little Common Recreation Ground, the site also offers swings and a trim trail for older children and adults There are also beautifully tended allotments. Parking available.
The Drove - Newhaven
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The Drove - Newhaven
FUN FACTORY  (Indoor Play Building) OPENING TIMES    Sunday - Thursday 12noon - 8pm. Friday & Saturday 12noon - 9pm. PARTY PACKAGES    Please ring for details on party packages. Private parties with exclusive use of fun house are available. CHARGES    £2.00 per child per hour. We are...
Seaford Bay Beach
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Seaford Bay Beach
The bay is a wave-cut platform containing a 4 mile shingle beach. To the east it is backed by the chalk cliffs of Seaford Head Nature Reserve. It is a quiet family beach.
Spring Barn Farm - Lewes
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Spring Barn Farm - Lewes
So much to see and do…     Meet your favourite farm animals and our small animals up close, and join in the daily activity schedule!     COCKY’S fantastic indoor play barn with MEGA slides (open from 10am) and Under 5’s and Under 3’s soft play     Outdoor play areas, 2 big...
Scotney Castle - Tunbridge Wells
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Scotney Castle - Tunbridge Wells
Scotney is not one but two houses. At the top of the hill is the new house, designed by Anthony Salvin in Elizabethan style and built in 1837 for Edward Hussey III, who took the ‘Picturesque’ style as his inspiration. At the bottom of the valley are the romantic ruins of a medieval castle and moat. This is the focal point of the...
Bewl Water - Lamberhurst
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Bewl Water - Lamberhurst
Come and simply relax and soak up the beautiful surroundings, or enjoy one of our many activities. Bewl Water Country Park is many things to many people - a place to walk, picnic, cycle, ride, entertain the family or simply unwind and relax. Cycle and horse riding track open Spring  to October. In summer there are activities for...
Groombridge Place Gardens and Enchanted Forest - Tunbridge Wells
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Groombridge Place Gardens and Enchanted Forest - Tunbridge Wells
Beautiful gardens, playgrounds and also stunning views, unusual animals, fun activities, huge swings, birds of prey, canal boat ride, garden restaurant, picnic areas, childrens parties. Groombridge Place Gardens and Enchanted Forest is a magical, mysterious place steeped in intrique and romance. With award winning beutiful gardens, providing a...
MinorMania - Tunbridge Wells
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MinorMania - Tunbridge Wells
We have a wide range of fabulous indoor and outdoor play equipment to get the children's he arts pumping and their imaginations racing. There is unlimited fun to be had, even those big kids who are parents! Kids Playcentre: Open - 9.30 - 6pm 7 days a week Under 4 - £3.95 Over 4 - £4.95 Party Venue for kids 0-12 years old
Grosvenor Park
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Grosvenor Park
The large and popular Grosvenor Park is the town's oldest public park and still contains some original historic features, such as the lake and grottoes or 'dripping wells'. It's a great little trip for a natural day out with plenty to see and do! Facilities at Grosvenor include an exciting and rather challenging outdoor adventure play area...
Hastings Beach
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Hastings Beach
Hastings is an established seaside resort with long sand and shingle beaches and plenty of facilities and entertainment.
Victoria Park Splashpad
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Victoria Park Splashpad
The pretty new Victoria Park Splashpad uses a mixture of raised troughs and sunken rills to make sure the fun is always flowing and with buttons to squirt water into action, or barriers to hold it back, so there are so many ways to play. Even cloudy days can bring watery fun, as children do not have to get wet when using the new equipment. The...
Alexandra Park
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Alexandra Park
Alexandra Park is well known for its diverse and abundant wildlife, especially at the Northern end, known as 'Old Roar Gill' which is now a Local Nature Reserve and well worth visiting with binoculars! However Kingfishers and Grey Wagtails can be seen any time of the year all over the park and not just in the reserve, especially at the Bucks-hole...
Bedelands Farm Nature Reserve - Burgess Hill
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Bedelands Farm Nature Reserve - Burgess Hill
This wonderful reserve is situated on the northeast edge of Burgess Hill.  There are a wide variety of habitats throughout the site that includes ponds, woodlands and wild flower meadows.  Walking through the woodlands you will see improved, unimproved and coppice-managed woods.  These woodland walks will open out onto large...
GO APE Bedgebury - Kent
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GO APE Bedgebury - Kent
If you like the idea of an amazing high wire forest tree top course then Go Ape could be just your thing. We have Tarzan swings, rope bridges, ladders, tunnels and zip lines suspended up to 40 feet high in the tree tops. Go Ape is an award-winning confidence course with branches throughout the UK.  The Go Ape course will appeal to a...
Bedgebury National Pinetum & Forest - Goudhurst
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Bedgebury National Pinetum & Forest - Goudhurst
Do you fancy reliving the adventures of the famous explorers who brought back some of our most exotic trees and shrubs from the farthest corners of the world? Bedgebury's specially-designed play area reflects some of the challenges faced by intrepid plant-hunters through the ages. There are many specially-built structures in the forest to...
Quench Cycles
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Quench Cycles
One of the most fun days out in Kent: perfect for parties, group events and days out with the family. It's not only that though, we will also help you to fix your bike if it's broken, teach you how to take care of it properly; and provide you, or your children, with lessons on how to ride. If you don't have a bike, we offer bike hire on site! ...
Washbrooks Farm Centre - Hurstpierpoint
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Washbrooks Farm Centre - Hurstpierpoint
Welcome to Washbrooks Family Farm. Come and enjoy our beautiful location overlooking the South Downs in the village of Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex. A great day out what ever the weather. We are a family business offering a great environment for young children to meet all their favourite farm animals under one roof and enjoy hours of...
Brighton Wheel
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Brighton Wheel
Visit the Brighton Wheel for stunning, panoramic views of the city's famous landmarks and coastline - and fascinating commentary of Brighton and Hove's heritage. Opening times 10am till 9pm Sun to Thu 10am till 11pm Fri & Sat 7 days a week Ticket prices  (10% off when you book online) Adult: £8 Onsite / £7.20 Online -...
Brighton Sewer Tours
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Brighton Sewer Tours
The award winning Brighton Sewer Tours welcomes mobile, sensibly dressed over 11s to explore the underground facilities with an informed guided commentary. The tour takes you along narrow, whitewashed corridors and up and down metal ladders to see the route of the day’s waste and stormwater, which flows to a treatment plant to the east of...
Brighton Beach
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Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach is a long pebbly affair housed in a cove which means it’s safe for shallow family swimming and offers handy southerly wind protection. There's no lifeguard cover at all though so do be careful and don't take inflatables along. Plenty of room on the beach however it's tricky to play ball games and whatnot on the pebbles, so...
Preston Park - Brighton
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Preston Park - Brighton
Facilities Children's playground Football pitches (4) Cricket fields (2) Bowling greens (3) - open to the public on a pay & play basis Tennis courts (8) Softball pitch (1) Rounders & stool ball pitches can be marked out if required Multi-sports area 500m cycle velodrome Cafés (2) Toilets Healthwalks
Hever Castle and Gardens
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Hever Castle and Gardens
The spectacular gardens at Hever Castle were laid out between 1904 and 1908 by Joseph Cheal & Son, turning marshland into the spectacular gardens you see today. Mazes are part of the Renaissance garden tradition, becoming part of formal garden design throughout Europe.  This became unpopular in the eighteenth century and was revived in...
Kings Road Playground
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Kings Road Playground
King's Road playground is beautifully located right on the seafront so oodles of natural sand to get stuck into with a great selection of sturdy climbing frames, slides and other classic kids’ equipment, aimed at under 8s but older are welcome as well. There's a huge old fashioned paddling pool available seasonally each year from mid May...
Haysden Country Park
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Haysden Country Park
At Haysden Country Park there are a wide variety of things to do, including walking, a children's play area, nature study, volunteering and a number of countryside related events. The cool adventure play area near the main car park, features a nicely nippy aerial runway, climbing structures with slides, and swings including a tyre swing. It's...
Hove Park
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Hove Park
Hove Park is popular with local residents, dog walkers and runners. The park covers almost 40 acres of valley bottom and features a mix of large areas of open grass, mature trees, flower beds and recreational facilities. Facilities Children's playground Football training pitches (2)    Football astroturf...
It's Great Outdoors! Pyecombe
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It's Great Outdoors! Pyecombe
It's Great Outdooors! takes small groups out into a woodland setting to teach Bushcraft skills such as firelighting, shelter building, wild camping, navigation, campfire cooking, nature observation, tracking and such like in order to develop the self confidence for young people (and those responsible for them) to get out there and have adventures...
The British Wildlife Centre - Lingfield
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The British Wildlife Centre - Lingfield
See over forty different native wild animal species from tiny harvest mice to magnificent red deer...and everything in between. We open...  EVERY WEEKEND AND PUBLIC HOLIDAY from March to the end of October AND DAILY DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS. EASTER HOLIDAY: Saturday 9 April  - Monday 25 April Outside public opening dates we are...
The Peacock
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The Peacock
This large pub has 150 covers and a huge beer garden for the summer months.  The younger family members are offered an outdoor play area to keep them amused and, in turn, give their carers a chance to chill out and have some uninterrupted conversation.
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
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Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
The Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is an acknowledged Site of Special Scientific Interest, supporting many unusual plants and mini beasts awaiting your discovery! It’s a fairly isolated environment so you’ll need to dress well and take your kit bag, with binoculars, camera and sketching materials being great ideas to slip into spare...
Camber Sands
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Camber Sands
Mountainous sand dunes and vast expanses so even when it's busy you can find a space for yourselves. A variety of water sports are available, and swimming is quite safe when the sea is calm so there is no lifeguard cover. Kite boarding and kite buggying are both popular at the eastern end of the beach. The tide returns notoriously fast here...
Creaseys Drive Adventure Playground - Crawley
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Creaseys Drive Adventure Playground - Crawley
On long hot sunny days Creasys Drive is the place to be, set among the shade of the trees and play structures there is always plenty to do. Grab a jar and go bug hunting, join us as we spill out on to the field for a game of rounders or when we get the bouncy castle out! Winter doesn’t stop us, there is still a lot going on...
Go Ape Tree Top Adventure - Crawley
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Go Ape Tree Top Adventure - Crawley
Featuring Tree Top Junior and our classic Tree Top Adventure. We think everyone has the Go Ape spirit just waiting to be unleashed! There’s no greater rush than the great outdoors, so whether your tribe is a birthday party, corporate event or simply a day out with the kids, we make our courses as fun and as accessible as possible. Our NEW...
Tilgate Park
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Tilgate Park
Tilgate Park is Crawley’s flagship open air leisure facility attracting hundreds of thousands of people each year from all over the South East region. The park was recently awarded Green Flag status for the ninth year running due to the excellent facilities it offers to people of all ages including an £80,000 adventure playground...
Ardingly Activity Centre
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Ardingly Activity Centre
Ardingly Activity Centre is a great place for water based activities, whatever your age or ability level. The patient and enthusiastic staff have will introduce you and the family to the thrilling experience of canoeing, sailing and windsurfing. You will learn on the reservoir, which offers a great expanse of fresh water that is ideal for...
Waterlea Adventure Playground
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Waterlea Adventure Playground
Waterlea Adventure Playground with an Adventure Cove theme offers indoor and outdoor facilities, parents seating, picnic area, refreshments, sports, pool, and art and craft. Outside there is a huge play structure that offers the opportunity to climb, swing, hang, jump, spin, slide, dig and bounce to your hearts content. Its a great place for...
Millpond Adventure Playground - Crawley
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Millpond Adventure Playground - Crawley
At Millpond Adventure Playground we encourage imaginative play and make believe. We even have fancy dress football tournaments, where you can wear your own costume or choose from our dressing up box. If you are bored with your Xbox or Playstation3 try out some games your parents may remember in our retro games zone where Nintendo 64 is...
Cherry Lane Adventure Playground
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Cherry Lane Adventure Playground
Cherry Lane Adventure Playground with a Wild West Town theme offers indoor and outdoor facilities, parents seating, picnic area, refreshments, sports, pool, and art and craft. Outside there are huge play structures that offer the opportunity to climb, swing, hang, jump, spin, slide, dig and bounce to your hearts content. Its a great place for...
Adur Outdoor Activities Centre
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Adur Outdoor Activities Centre
The Adur Outdoor Activities Centre (AOAC) offers a wide range of outdoor activities, opportunities and experiences to individuals, schools, colleges, youth groups and other organisations. With an indoor climbing and bouldering wall, through to activities on the water with kayaks and canoes to mountain biking across the South Downs the AOAC has...
WACKY WAREHOUSE Horley - Air Balloon
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WACKY WAREHOUSE Horley - Air Balloon
WACKY WAREHOUSE (Indoor Play Building) OPENING TIMES    Monday-Thursday 9.30am - 8pm last admissions 7pm. Friday 9.30am - 9pm last admissions 8pm.  Saturday 11am - 9pm last admissions 8pm. Sunday 11am - 8pm last admissions 7pm. TOTS TIME    Term Time: Monday - Friday 9.30am - 3pm. CHILDREN'S...
River Hill Himalayan Gardens - Sevenoaks
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River Hill Himalayan Gardens - Sevenoaks
Have a great family day out in the most imaginative garden to visit in Kent. Discover the Everest trail with incredible views, let your Little Sherpas’ imaginations run wild in our new Himalayan Hideout, spend time building dens together, lose yourself in the Himalayan Maze and perhaps even spot the elusive Yeti. This is a...
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