Tell me of 10 uk attractions/landmarks that my children shouldn't miss out on.

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Ill start.

1. Buckingham Palace
2. House of Commons
3. Windsor Castle
4. Hampton Court Palace
5. Llangollan cannal
6. Edinburgh castle
7. Hadrian's wall
8. Culloden battlefield
9. Royal Mile

10. Cairngorms

Small Isles: Eigg, Rum Muck and Canna.
Trossachs
Snowdon and North Wales
Enlli
Blackpool Lights
Chester Zoo
Lizard Peninsula and Lands End
Norfolk Broads via a Canal Boat

Oh forgot to add, I loved visiting Staffa which has rocks like the Giants Causeway but you go by boat via Iona (also lovely). You need good weather though.

Drystone walls do not just exist in the UK. They're very common in Ireland for starters. And on that note, a previous poster suggested Blarney Castle, which isn't in the UK.

With regards to the right to roam, someone mentioned not being sure of how N Ireland and Wales compare with England and Scotland. There is no right to roam in N Ireland, it's very restricted. Not sure about Wales.

Now, to the question being asked!

My children's favourite UK places have been

HMS Belfast
London in general
Ironbridge museums, particularly Blists Hill
York, especially the Shambles and the Yorvik museum
Windsor Castle
Bekonscot Miniature village
Titanic museum Belfast
Caernarfon Castle

And whilst children aren't generally huge fans of scenery and the like, even they enjoyed the walk up to Symonds Yat and the view over the Wye valley

North East castles
Blackpool Tower and illuminations
Any seaside town seafront on a windy day
Lake District
Mining museums - Honister in the Lake District and Woodhorn or Beamish in the North East

Hilbre Island on the Wirral to see the seals.

Battle abbey ( 1066 / Magna Carta etc)
Westminster palace ( House of Parliament / Big Ben)
Buckingham palace
Stone henge
Iron bridge and surrounding area
Tintagel Castle
New forest
Norfolk broads
Lake District
Chatsworth
Brownsea island (plus a trip around it in a boat)
Chatham dockyard
Portsmouth dockyard
York railway museum
National history museum
London transport museum
Major county agricultural show (like Kent county or bath and west )
National gallery
Steam railway trip ( any but the one to Whitby is great )
Dover castle
Chislehurst caves
Castle coch
Windsor castle
Duxford aircraft museum
RAF museum ( north london)
War museum ( building was originally Bedlam )

SS Great Britain
HMS Belfast
The globe theatre
Borough market
Tate modern
All NT and EH property are worth a visit
Kelvedon hatch nuclear bunker ( absolutely loved this )
A day in a beautiful city ( Bath York Canterbury Oxford Cambridge Cardiff Liverpool etc etc)
The Jurassic coast

1. A ruined castle (Kenilworth is a favourite of mine, or one of the many in Wales)
2. A restored/whole castle (eg Cardiff, Stirling, Warwick).
3. A battlefield (eg Bannockburn, but there must be others that are good visitor attractions)
4. An iconic museum (Natural History, Science etc)
5. A bridge which was/is a feat of engineering (Clifton suspension bridge, Iron Bridge, Forth road bridge)
6. A Royal or Stately building (Buck Palace, Houses of Parliament etc)
7. A museum relating to the industrial revolution (eg Black Country Museum)
8. A national park with big hills in to walk up
9. Something relating to the world wars

10. An iconic piece of coastline - ideally somewhere with a memorable beach/nice headland etc, but also that archetypal seaside town feel (amusements etc)

Brimham Rocks 🪨

I think Legoland won for my kids, and a soccer stadium tour despite lots of castles, museums and stately homes. Im trying to convince my husband to get a set of os maps, and 'do' one at a time.
I need to go back to Cornwall to see Tintagel again, it has a new bridge? And now the Bude tunnel.

Dartmoor
Minack theatre/Porthcurno
Snowdonia
Wardour castle
Charmouth for fossil hunting
London for museums
Savernake forest

This can be more expensive and harder to arrange, but here are some events:

• big stadium concert
• pantomime
• a ballet or opera
• major football or rugby match
• Wimbledon
• big race meeting (ideally Epsom on Derby Day)
• county/agricultural show
• Olympia, Horse of the Year Show or cross country day at one of the big three day events
• Formula One race/Goodwood Festival of Speed
• Edinburgh Festival

The national museums are good and free to enter. The National Mining Museum (near wakefield) is a great day out with kids, you are taken down by an ex-miner. The is also Big Pit in Wales. As the child of parents with Natioanl Trust membership, I would urge caution visiting lots of stately homes/ historic sites. After one they become pretty dull unless there is something specific on. I remember finding the Tower of London quite boring as a child, I loved the Museum of London though.

Alton Towers
Liverpool waterfront
Caernarfon Castle
The Shambles in York
Cardiff Bay
Blackpool Tower

The Isle of Wight
The lake district
London
Edinburgh + rest of Scotland
Bath
Wales (hardly been but is important to understand the culture and language)
Ireland (hardly been but want to go)

A Northern Mill like quarry bank Mill or Manchester museum of science and industry shows our industrial past

Castles

Canals

Loads of things!

Oh yes, York. Amazing

My 2 are similar ages to yours OP, things they have enjoyed are

Trip to Staffa to see Puffins / Fingals cave
Theme Park Alton Towers etc
There are some good National Trust properties that have adventure playgrounds for the kids which they much preferred to those that are “just” a stately home mine loved Culzean Castle and Sudbury Hall
Agree there are good zoos such as Chester but they’re not unique to the UK a wildlife spotting boat trip is a good fun alternative - Sea Eagles & dolphins / porpoises are exciting spots
Eden Project
Sport stadium tour - we did Anfield, none of us are Liverpool fans but all really enjoyed it
Historic city / town for mooching York & Edinburgh are good and St Andrews for somewhere a bit smaller - also good if there’s a golf enthusiast in the family
Skara Brae - I’d wanted to visit since I studied it at primary & it didn’t disappoint kids liked it too
We’ve not done London with the kids yet but going soon so will be using some of the suggestions on here

@SummerWhisper

12. Centre for Alternative Technology at Machynlleth

And the red kite centre near by

Portmeirion

Make sure you save Bude Tunnel until last as nothing else will compare.

I was in Bude last weekend and forgot to take the DC to the Bude tunnel. They have been before when running errands for Grandparents.

I feel they’ve missed out. I will make sure I go next time. Lucky MIL goes to the Bude tunnel for a visit every week!!

We had a family discussion & decided on

1. Seaside with sandy beach & pier
2. Steam train ride
3. Science museum/Blist Hill museum
4. Castle
5. Alton Towers theme Park or similar
6. A working farm
7. Zoo or safari Park
8. Zip line adventure
9. Cave
10. Lido or out door swimming pool
11. County fair in summer
12. Musical at theatre
13. Day in London
14. Visit to a secret underground bunker
15. Mountain

@ParkingPassG0

We had a family discussion & decided on

1. Seaside with sandy beach & pier
2. Steam train ride
3. Science museum/Blist Hill museum
4. Castle
5. Alton Towers theme Park or similar
6. A working farm
7. Zoo or safari Park
8. Zip line adventure
9. Cave
10. Lido or out door swimming pool
11. County fair in summer
12. Musical at theatre
13. Day in London
14. Visit to a secret underground bunker
15. Mountain

Ooh this is a good list. My kids would also add a high up view - Spinnaker Tower, i360, London Eye or whatever the nearest local equivalent is.

These are fantastic. Thank you!

Agree with pp its not necessarily about where you go, or how much it costs, its daft little fun things people remember. We have been reminiscing a lot this month as my Dad has just passed and all of our memories are more to do with things that happened rather than where we were. My eldest DD (22) declared her favourite holiday memory to be when we were walking along the sea front in Torquay and a wave came over the sea wall soaking us all, except for her as she has been running ahead in a strop because she couldn't have a 2nd ice cream

We went on holiday near to Bude this summer and had never heard of Bude Tunnel til then. I was stunned by the amazing beauty of it The dc were obsessed with driving past it every day.