Summer Days Out with the Family

Blists Hill Victorian Town

For a real time travel experience this summer, you can't beat a visit to Blists Hill. Kids adore buying traditional sweets with old fashioned coins, riding on the fairground and taking a trip on the horse and cart. The pigs and chickens are always firm favourites along with dipping a candle or playing with the Victorian toys during the school holidays.

Athletic Athenians at Enginuity

Celebrate the athletic achievements of ancient Greece at Enginuity this school summer holiday and make your own chariot, have a go at some fun design and make challenges or enjoy an amazing science show.

Get Arty

For families with a creative side visits to Coalport China Museum and Jackfield Tile Museum are a must. On many days during the summer holidays you can have a go at making your own ceramic masterpiece or decorating a tile with your own fun design.

The family will want to come back time and time again and with a fantastic value Annual Pass you can. You pay once and come back for unlimited days out for twelve months.

The Ironbridge Gorge is on the River Severn, 5 miles (8km) south of Telford town centre in Shropshire. Transport links by car, rail, coach and bus.
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Visitor Information Centre

Museum of The Gorge, TF8 7NH
Telephone: 01952 433424
Email: tic@ironbridge.org.uk