27 Best Sightseeing Attractions In Warwickshire

Close enough that you should not plan both. RSC Theatre Tours and Royal Shakespeare Company appear as separate listings and lead to the same organisation in the same town, one describing a behind-the-scenes tour and the other the company itself. Two lines on a page, one afternoon in practice. It is a good illustration of why a county count is worth reading sceptically before you build a two-day trip out of it.

Not necessarily, but the angle matters. Stratford Town Walk is a guided route round a compact town, which works for a child who likes stories and struggles for one who wants to be doing something with their hands. A theatre tour goes down better with children who like backstage machinery — ropes, trapdoors, lighting rigs — than with those who are expected to care about the plays. Pitch it as how a theatre works, not as literature.

Avonvale MES Miniature Railway is the pick, a small-gauge line rated 5 by visitors and about as simple a pleasure as this county's list contains. Guide Dogs National Breeding Centre is the other one, recorded with both indoor and outdoor space, and puppies need no explaining to a four-year-old. Neither will fill a whole day on its own, so pair one with a park or a meal rather than expecting it to carry the afternoon.

Seventeen of the twenty-seven have indoor space recorded, and the museums are the dependable end of that. British Motor Museum is under one roof, and a theatre tour keeps you inside by definition. The walking entries — the town walk, the spy trail, the weird walk of Warwick — are all exposed, and a self-guided sheet in heavy rain is a miserable business. Keep one covered option in reserve if you have booked a walk.