11 Best Parks and Playgrounds In Cambridgeshire

Not quite, and it is worth knowing why. One listing is a seasonal festival rather than a permanent site, and it takes place in grounds that are already on the list under the park's own name, so the same ground is counted twice. Ten distinct places is the honest figure. Ten is still a decent showing here, and the country parks are genuinely separate destinations, not variations on a single theme.

Cambridgeshire is flat, which helps enormously. Ferry Meadows Country Park is built around surfaced paths that take wheels without a fight, and Milton Country Park is much the same. Hinchingbrooke Country Park is similarly manageable and recorded with free entry. Wandlebury Country Park is the one to think twice about with a heavy buggy, since a chalk hill is still a hill however gentle the surrounding county happens to be.

Less than there is for small ones, which is the honest shape of this list. Skylark Maize Maze and Funyard sets a nine-year-old a problem to solve instead of a path to walk. Anglesey Abbey works if you treat the grounds as the destination in their own right. Beyond those, the country parks reward a child who will cycle or bring a scooter, and rather punish one who expects to be entertained. Water play is the great leveller, but only in warm weather.

Yes, in one case. Our data shows Hinchingbrooke Country Park as free to walk into. Nowhere else on the Cambridgeshire list does, though read that as silence and not as an answer, since we simply hold no figure for most of these sites. Council country parks generally behave the way you would expect them to. What varies, and what catches families out, is parking and anything run as a separate concession inside the gates. Put that question to the site.