The variety of things on offer at Jake’s Indoor Play Barn and Mini Farm is quite something – farm animals and reptiles, sand pits and water play, construction diggers and musical instruments, panning for gold and boat hire, fairy doors and fire engines. It’s all here and packed...

Hollowdene Recreation Area is a small play area with equipment for use by children under the age of 14 years. If you walk down past the playing fields you come to a footpath through the trees that leads to a bridge over a little stream and some fields. We spotted some ducks

We were surprised by how much there is to see at Didcot Railway Centre. As well as two operational railway lines and a science exhibition, there is a turntable, a workshop, a World War 2 air raid shelter and an engine shed full of enormous locomotives

150 million years ago, the Dorset coast was a shallow, tropical sea patrolled by huge marine reptiles, predators and fish. All that remains today are fossilised remains and these can be seen at The Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life.