9 Best Activities In Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds wears its history lightly, which is exactly what children need it to do. The Suffolk town's nine family attractions let you dose the heritage carefully: Moyse's Hall Museum deals in the gloriously macabre — witch bottles, crime relics and a building that has stood since the Norman era — while the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, the country's last working Regency playhouse, stages family shows in a gilded auditorium where £12 buys a seat in living history. A mystery treasure trail turns the abbey ruins and medieval street grid into a ninety-minute detective case. The other half of the list belongs to energy and craft: a laser arena for parties and rainy Saturdays, a jewellery-making studio on Hatter Street for focused older kids, riding lessons at stables just outside town, a multiplex, and — rated 4.9 by visitors — the aptly named The Playground, the town's benchmark outdoor play spot. Six venues indoor, three outdoor: a cathedral town that entertains actual children, not just their history-minded parents.