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- Stockwood Park
- Stockwood Discovery Centre
- Wardown Park
- Wardown Park Museum
- Mossman Collection
- St Mary’s Church
- Whipsnade Zoo
- Woodside Animal Farm
- Dunstable Downs
- Barton Hills National Nature Reserve
This 100-hectare park is at Luton’s southern limits is a former country estate. Stockwood House (1740) was pulled down in the 1960s, and its stables and walled gardens now host the Stockwood Discovery Centre, developed with finance from the Heritage Lottery Fund and which we’ll cover below. The remainder of the parkland features sports pitches and ...
The museum in the stables at Stockwood Park is fringed by a Medieval garden, Elizabethan formal knot garden and a Dig for Victory Garden, recreating the vegetable plots of the Second World War. In the museum’s complex of old and new buildings there’s a Discovery Hall, a set of Victorian Greenhouses and the Discovery Galleries. In the Discovery Hall...
A municipal park that would make any town proud, Wardown Park lies beside the River Lea, which feeds a boating lake on its east side. Other than the house containing the Wardown Park Museum, the main landmark in the park is the suspension bridge, dating to 1908 and restored in 2015. Also a delight is the Daisy Chain wall, built in 1905, with Arts a...
The Victorian Mansion in Wardown Park houses Luton’s town museum, concentrating on local archaeology and traditional knowhow in Bedfordshire. On the ground floor you can examine a mirror from the Iron Age and the Shillington Roman Coin Hoard, made up of 130 mostly gold coins pressed during the reigns of seven different Roman emperors. The old Bedfo...
Worthy of its own entry is this astounding collection of horsedrawn vehicles at the Life’s Journey Gallery in the Discovery Centre. Put together by the local businessman George Mossman, this is the largest collection of its kind in Europe, and features 54 of his vehicles and nine added by the Luton Museum Services. Some of the spellbinding exhibits...
Bedfordshire’s largest church, St Mary’s dates back more than 850 years and shines for the flint and stone chequer pattern on its exterior. Although the monument has been heavily restored, the bulk of its architecture is in the Perpendicular Gothic style from the 15th century when the local lord John Wenlock funded an expansion and built a chapel f...
A few miles into the Dunstable Downs is the largest zoo in the UK. Whipsnade Zoo is owned by the ZSL (Zoological Society of London), a non profit organisation engaged in animal conservation around the world. Over more than a dozen zones, Whipsnade has cheetahs, Indian rhinos, birds from around the world, a herd of nine Asian elephants, sea lions, A...
One for families with young children, Woodside Animal Farm lets kids feed and pet animals in a safe environment under the watch of trained staff. These hands-on sessions tend to be seasonal, and the best time to come is around Easter when there are baby lambs, ducklings and rabbits. Children will find out about the animals’ diets and behaviour, whi...
In Luton you’re never more than a few minutes from the Chilterns, a scenic chalk range running diagonally southwest of the town. The Chilterns’ northeast escarpment is close by at the Dunstable Downs, where Haddington Hill marks the highest point in the East of England. You can follow the National Trust’s Five Knolls Wildlife and Heritage Walk to g...
There’s more breathtaking countryside north of Luton at the Chilterns’ northeastern foothills. This tract of downland is adored for its unusual wildflowers like greater pignuts, hair violets, orchids, fleaworts and, best of all, pasques, which bloom between April and June. These help attract colourful array of butterflies, and at the foot of the va...
Apr 4, 2022 · Luton is a small town that may not be as popular as other tourist destinations in the UK, but it does offer a lot of tourist attractions including Luton Hoo Estate Walled Garden, Barton Hills National Nature Reserve, Stockwood Park, Someries Castle, Hat Factory Arts Centre, and more.
- Lisa_Reviewer1. Essex, UK48 contributions. Great! Great place. The museum and gardens were very interesting and the staff were very helpful and friendly. Lovely way to spend a couple of hours.
- Caroline M. 4 contributions. Brilliant Christmas lights. We booked a late slot in the week before Christmas, thinking we'd avoid the crowds and the lack of room to walk we've experienced elsewhere and it worked a treat.
- RodneyfromLondon. London, UK 767 contributions. Outstanding local museum. One of the most memorable local museums I have visited. Enough has been retained of the original Victorian mansion, particularly the dining room, now an excellent café, and the bathroom, dressing room (with a fashion display) and bedroom.
- Jessica G. 1 contribution. Great for toddlers. We're annual membership holders and so come here quite a bit. This is a good place to go to if you have younger ones as its got a little bit if everything.
- Marianne A. 1 contribution. Hats made us exhibition. A group of us went to the hats made us exhibition. It was curated and the curator was excellent. We even had some money back as the booking office had to change the date of our visit and some people couldn't go.
- Sandra N. 3 contributions. Jaw droppingly beautiful. This is the most amazing Christmas light show I've ever seen. The reflective lights and trees in the pond were mesmerising, I could have looked at them for hours.
- RodneyfromLondon. London, UK 767 contributions. Outstanding local museum. One of the most memorable local museums I have visited. Enough has been retained of the original Victorian mansion, particularly the dining room, now an excellent café, and the bathroom, dressing room (with a fashion display) and bedroom.
- Finola. 5 contributions. Took my twin granddaughters. Beautiful countryside. Just a few breed of animals. Mostly lamas and goats . It needs a few more animals.
- therichastill. Stevenage, UK2,638 contributions. Ornate Gardens. Stockwood Park Discovery Centre has been on my list of places to visit for quite some time.
- Sandra N. 3 contributions. Jaw droppingly beautiful. This is the most amazing Christmas light show I've ever seen. The reflective lights and trees in the pond were mesmerising, I could have looked at them for hours.
- RodneyfromLondon. London, UK 767 contributions. Outstanding local museum. One of the most memorable local museums I have visited. Enough has been retained of the original Victorian mansion, particularly the dining room, now an excellent café, and the bathroom, dressing room (with a fashion display) and bedroom.
- Finola. 5 contributions. Took my twin granddaughters. Beautiful countryside. Just a few breed of animals. Mostly lamas and goats . It needs a few more animals.
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