9 Best Activities In Minehead

West Somerset Railway gives you carriages under cover and open platforms to wait on, which is a handy combination in changeable weather. Small children tend to love a steam engine for about ten minutes and then love looking out of a window for a great deal longer, so it works better than the ten-minute figure suggests. Check the timetable first and think about how you are getting back.

Blue Anchour Bay is the beach on this list. England Coast Path National Trail runs along the coast for as far as anyone in your group is willing to walk, which with children usually means a short there-and-back rather than anything ambitious. Channel Adventure Minehead covers activity on the water. All three are outdoors and all three want decent weather.

The Golden Retriever Experience is exactly what the name suggests, and it runs in the open, so it depends on the weather like most things here. For a child who has been campaigning for a dog, an hour with a pack of retrievers is either the perfect day out or a serious tactical error, depending on how firm you are prepared to be afterwards. Book ahead, since small experience-based places rarely take walk-ins.

Five entries out of nine offer some shelter, though several are only half covered. Minehead Eye is the fully indoor option and is set up as an activity centre, which tends to suit older children better than being shown things would. Dunster Castle, West Somerset Railway and Exmoor Owl and Hawk Centre each mix cover with open ground, so a passing shower need not end the visit.