Mountfitchet Castle (Essex) - anyone been?

[Hulababy]

Here

Has anyone been? What was it like?

BIL and SIL are moving quite close to here, all being well, in a couple of months. We walked past this place and it looked really interesting and thought 7y DD might enjoy it sometime next year.

yy, really great day out. Nice castle site with lots of wooden huts with more-or-less authentically recreated mediaeval scenes. And lots of random animals wandering about.

Lots of fun.

can get very slippy if its been raining but on a dry day its good (castle does tend to focus a lot on torture and gore .. stocks and jails etc)

toy museum is V RETRO but quite fun (watch out for the spitting dinosaur)

We used to go when I was a child and I LOVED it - running up to all the different huts to see what was inside!

Can't wait for DD to be old enough

Went on a school trip when I was 11. Main memory is slipping down a bank and ending up covered head to toe in mud!

I used to love it when i was little - loved the goats!

don't have any hopes of seeing any kind of real [disney style] castle though, it's just a pile of rocks! The huts/old village are great though and certainly a different day out for kids. Mine have always enjoyed it. The toy museum is great too.

Much improved over the last few years. Has live animals, some gross bits and a ducking stool which fascinated our yr1s when we did a school trip a couple of years ago. Best done on a dry day though. The Toy Museum is great for adults! Has always been expensive for what it is but perfect for KS2 age group I would say. Unfortunately not suitable for wheelchairs or oldies really due to being on a steep hill.

HTH

Thanks all Will definitely keep it in mind for when we visit BIL. It did look interesting from what we could see outside. It looked like something DD might enjoy.