Family-friendly things to do at Avebury

Planning your family visit

 

• Free entry for under 5s

• Baby-changing facilities available

• Children’s menu available at the café

• Pocket money gifts and children’s books available in the shop

• Picnic tables in the Old Farmyard

 

February half-term at Avebury  

Half-term 'bird search

Explore Avebury Manor Garden with a free family trail to help some native British birds find their homes.

Painted birds have been hidden around Avebury Manor Garden. Families can pick up a trail sheet from the barn visitor reception or garden gate to match each bird to its colourful bird house. Free with entry to Avebury Manor Garden.

The 'bird search' trail will be open from 15-23 February between 10am-4pm. 

Families can also borrow an explorer backpack or try a free sensory map to discover new sides to the garden.

Half-term museum trail

Visit the Alexander Keiller Museum to learn more about Avebury and try becoming a museum detective on a free trail.

The museum trail will be open from 15-23 February between 10am-4pm. Free with entry to the Alexander Keiller Museum. 

More details to follow soon. 

Easter trail at Avebury

Join us at Avebury this spring for an Easter adventure in the manor garden and take part in games and challenges to claim your chocolate egg.

Make your way along the trail while taking part in 10 fun, creative, and playful activities for the whole family. The trail takes place between 29 March and 21 April from 10am-5pm, so come along and explore the beautiful gardens of Avebury.

Prices are £3.50 per trail which includes an Easter trail sheet and bunny ears. You can choose from either a chocolate egg or a vegan and Free From chocolate egg.

Explore Avebury Henge and Stone Circles

4,500 years ago, people living here built the largest stone circle in the world, with two smaller circles within it* and dug a 9m deep bank and ditch around the outer one.

You can enter the stone circle, touch the stones (but don’t climb), walk all the way around it, and take a walk along West Kennet Avenue, one of the two stone rows that led to (or from) the circles.

The stones is enclosed by fences, but be careful crossing the roads.  Most of the year there are sheep grazing the grass.

*Stonehenge would fit within one of these smaller circles.

Learn about Avebury in the Alexander Keiller Museum

All of the artefacts in the museum come from local excavations, many from the time of Alexander Keiller who dug at Avebury in the 1930s. Here you can find out more about the Avebury World Heritage Site and the Neolithic people who built their monument here.

Discover Avebury Manor

Avebury Manor is currently closed for repairs and restoration work following flooding in January.

You can see images from the flooding on display in the barn and we will share more information on when the manor will reopen as soon as we have it. 

Avebury Manor Garden 

The garden at Avebury Manor is organised into a series of 'rooms', each with it's own character. Take your time to explore or simply take a seat and enjoy the sights and scents around you.

Explorer backpacks, containing spotter sheets, books, and binoculars are available to borrow from the garden gate. We also have garden games and blankets available in the Church Garden. 

If you are visiting with children who like wildlife, make sure you head to the Topiary Garden to spot the Great crested newts in the pond. 

Avebury Manor Garden sensory map 

A new sensory map for children is now available to pick up and follow from the garden gate.

Perfect for neurodivergent visitors or younger families, you can use the free map to discover the best places to listen to the wind, smell the herbs, and look at the wildlife.