Playwood Adventure Play Area at Alice Holt Forest, Farnham
Playwood Adventure Play Area has a woodland theme with a log cabin and a wooden climbing frame built to look like trees and logs. The perfect place for the Gruffalo to hide…
Playwood Adventure Play Area
Playwood is next to the cafe and has play equipment that includes:
- a large wooden climbing frame with a slide, tunnels, towers with easy to climb stairs, nets, a fireman’s pole and ladders
- a smaller wooden climbing frame for younger children with a slide, a bridge, a fireman’s pole and easy to climb stairs
- a wooden hut with a rope
- a wooden shipwreck climbing frame
- swings
- toddler swings
- a basket swing
- an accessible roundabout
- picnic tables
- seats to sit on.
Timberline Adventure Play Area
Timberline Adventure Play Area is a five minute walk from Playwood and is a huge, circular obstacle course with slides, ropes and climbing frames.
Alice Holt Forest
Alice Holt Forest is full of things to do – play trails, cycle tracks, table tennis, orienteering, adventure play areas and even story book characters like the Gruffalo…
Story Book Trails
Alice Holt is also one of the venues that hosts story book activity trails based on the books of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
Trails have included The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, The Highway Rat and Zog. At the time of writing, there is a Superworm Trail.
The Timberline Play Trail
The 1km long Habitat Trail leads you past both adventure play areas and hides huge play sculptures.
Visit the Playwood Adventure Play Area website
Further Information
Nearest Town: Farnham
County: Surrey
Nearest Postcode: GU10 4LS
Opens: Daily
Cost: Free
Where to Eat: Bring a picnic, hire a barbecue or eat at the cafe.
Facilities: Picnic tables, barbecue hire, cafe, ice creams, drinks, snacks, toilets, accessible toilets.
How Long We Spent There: 3 hours
Buggies: Buggy friendly
Parking: There is a large car park.
Cost of Parking: Various, starting from £3 for one hour.
Wildlife You Might See: Ducks, geese, woodpeckers, hedgehogs, tadpoles, frogs, birds, insects and the odd story book character.
Information Written: November 2022
Information Checked: February 2025
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